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Trust in the Lord with all thine heart And lean not on your own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths straight.
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START WITH THE STORY BY BILL
Are you there daddy is your face turned toward me?
He got up and realized that because it was so dark she could not recognize if he was there.
She did not understand if his face was toward her.
After she fell asleep the father gets up and goes into the bathroom.
He thought about how his daughter said I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY I CANT SEE YOU IF YOU ARE RIGHT In FRONT OF ME.
He said Lord this is how I feel.
It seems so dark that I can’t see if you are there.
Even though I know you are there the father said but are you facing me.
Can I tell you that life can be so hard that it becomes difficult to see God? Have you ever had such a dark moment in your life that you could not see Him?
You know who he is, but you just can’t see Him.
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As I let my daughter out the car, I had to wonder how could God let that happen?
It felt like a trust had been broken.
For the first time I did not know if she would be ok.
See it is in those dark moments or in those rough patches that it becomes hard to see God.
Nevertheless, we have to understand not only is He still there but He is also facing us.
So, what do we do when it is dark?
What do we do when it is scary?
What do we do when it feels like we cannot take it?
The answer is we still trust Him.
That’s what it is all about.
Trust in the Lord during difficult times.
Learning how to trust the Lord during challenging times can be a necessary step in living a purpose filled life.
I met Aaron on the day before he married Evelyn.
Within five minutes we hit it off.
Over the next 13 years we went from friends to cousins to like brothers to brothers.
In order to build this relationship, we both had to meet a certain criteria.
Isn’t this how normal relationships happen?
We set a standard for the people that we can trust.
After they meet that standard then they can become part of our inner circle.
But when people do not meet that standard, or they break our standards.
Then they are no longer qualified to be your friend or in our inner circle+.
I believe like so many of our other requirements we have put the same human standards on God.
What this means is when God does not do the things that we perceive as right for us.
We then feel as if he betrayed our trust.
For example
- When we trusted Him with our child and they still did not turn out the right way we then feel like God has betrayed our trust.
- When we gave Him our job issues and still lost that same job or things got worst we feel like He Betrayed us.
-Or When we gave our marriage problems to Him and they are still not fixed He is betraying us.
So, when you feel betrayed then the trust in the Lord has been broken.
Those words may never come out of your mouth but what are your actions saying.
When my trust is broken with friends, I do not tell them I am not your friend anymore.
That is elementary.
But I pull back from them.
I do not talk to them as much.
I do not tell them what is going on in my personal life.
And I believe this is what happens to out relationship with God.
We pull away from Him.
Maybe you do not ask him for help with other things.
Maybe you don’t give Him your personal issues anymore.
Maybe you don’t feel like praying or opening up your Bible.
By doing this it shows that there is a great confusion about our place with God.
Our actions can sometimes say that God is supposed to serve my imperfect will.
When actually we have an opportunity to serve His perfect will.
So that brings us to the scripture for today.
Proverbs 3; 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart And lean not on your own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths straight.
“When God breaks your trust?”
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Acknowledge Pastor Edwards.
Proverbs is written by King Solomon the wisest king and believed to be the second wisest person only to Jesus that ever lived.
The book of Proverbs contains no plots.
There are no stories.
There are no characters.
There are no prophecies about the second coming.
Proverbs has nothing that makes a great story.
But it is still considered one of the most quoted books in the Bible.
This is because it is deemed the book of wisdom.
One of the reasons behind this is it gives advice about money, sex, marriage, raising kids, even the danger of cosigning loans and the proper etiquette for dinner meetings.
Proverbs informs us it is better to sleep on the roof then sleep with a nagging wife.
Proverbs instructs us Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave.
Proverbs advises us to Let another praise you, and not your own mouth, a stranger, and not your own lips.
At the end of the book Proverbs helps us to understand that a noble women’s character is more precious than any jewelry.
Even though Proverbs was written by an older man intended for younger men it is still for everyone.
Leading up to verse 5 Solomon is telling us to keep all these teachings.
All the things that they are teaching write them on the heart and we will find favor and respect not only from God but also from people.
That brings us to the scripture this morning.
Proverbs 3; 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart And lean not on your own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths straight
How has God ever break your trust?`
Before I get into this I will tell you that the only reason God breaks our trust is not because of Him it is because of us.
1. God has broken our trust because we did not trust in His promises.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart And lean not on your own understanding
When we are to trust in the Lord, we are trusting in who He is.
So many times, we Hear people saying that they stand on promises even though they don’t know or understand the promises.
One example is when we hear that God will give you all the desires of your heart.
I never understood why people don’t realize that this is not about giving you whatever you want.
It sounds good but it does not work that way.
Nevertheless people will stand on it.
So when I say I will trust that the Lord will give all the desires of my own heart and then I did not win that billion dollar lottery ticket then he has broken my trust.
The Bible actually says delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
That is because when we delight in the Lord our desires become his desires.
That is me understanding that it is not my will but His will be done.
Its not about what He can do for me it is about what I can do for Him.
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