1On Sunday October 3rd The Church at Bee Cave will celebrate 2 years of being a church. We are preparing to celebrate that day what God has done over these 2 years and what He is doing today in our midst.
2 years ago as we started the church we knew it would be different than our past expereinces. We knew we were trying to be a different church than what we were used to. We knew it meant that we would have to trust God as we went into unchartered territory.
What I have learned is a new definition for trusting God. For most of my Christian expereince when people have said to "trust God" it meant I or we were facing a challenge that needed a solution that only God could do. What I have learned about trusting God is that it is not about God fixing a problem that I or the church is facing.
God has shown me that most of the time I have come to Him saying God we need you to fix something so that we won't need you again. That second part is not something we say but often what we mean. That is often our pattern. We are rolling along trying to do good stuff for God - using all of our skills and resources to make it happen. Then we face a challenge or problem that we cannot control or fix - that is when we call in the "trust God" mode. God we are going to trust that you will get us through this so that we can take it over again.
Unfortunately, that is where I and many Christians and churches are in trusting. But God is showing us that is a misguided trust. Sure God can come through in situations - but trusting Him is not about situations it is about our lives. To trust God is to trust Him with our life - not for Him to fix our problems.
Trust is knowing I am dependent on God for everything. Trust is knowing that I will always be dependent on Him. Trust does not stop when my current percieved problem goes away. Trust is not seeking control back from God, and not hoping God fixes something so that I feel no urgency or need for Him again. Trust is seeing everyday for the rest of my life as an opportunity to walk with God.
So we celebrate our two year anniversary - not because God has fixed things along the way and left us in control. Instead, we celebrate because God has let us walk with Him and is teaching us that we just need to trust Him as long as He lets us walk.
A 2 Year Anniversary and Lesson
Posted on September 23rd, 2010
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Stacey - September 23rd, 2010 at 9:00 PM
We are going through a similar situation as we are trusting our job will be viable beyond the month of September - We, meaning my husband. My initial thought is what do I need to do? Do I, a stay-at-home mom of three little ones, go back to work or wait it out? This whole thought process is wrong but difficult to change. God made me realize in this tug-of-war that I want to hold the reigns and did not give Him, the maker of all things perfect, ultimate control - This is why I have little comfort in the unknown. This I seek to change and ultimately be molded by God's grace.
For anyone feeling the need to control rather than to give control (such as I), which leads to a lack of peace, I pray this verse for you:
"Our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of comfort, who comforts us in ALL our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
May His love provide comfort to you.
For anyone feeling the need to control rather than to give control (such as I), which leads to a lack of peace, I pray this verse for you:
"Our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of comfort, who comforts us in ALL our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
May His love provide comfort to you.
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