trust today

Matthew 7:13,14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

In the storms of life, says Pastor Betty, you have three choices:

One, to praise God.
Two, to hang on to God.
Three, to lose faith.

Countless times in this past few months have I been tempted to use the third choice-but I believe in the God that saved a sinner like me for a reason, and I believe that He has abounding grace-and I choose to believe that He will deliver me from this storm.

It is easy, superbly easy to just drop your faith just like *that* in the middle of a storm in your life-be it a small change, a big catastrophe or a problem that has grown over the years. The easiest thing, and undoubtedly the stupidest thing to do, I have learnt, is to let go of your faith in God in these trying times.

Silly thing, really, considering how a person can choose to lose his or her faith in the only one thing that can take them through the storms.

Self-sufficiency be damned! Who says you can make it on your own?

Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?

God wants to help you through these storms. He says: "Stop struggling. Celebrate Jesus. Fix your eyes on Him. Concentrate on Him. And you'll be out of this mess soon enough,"

Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.