I know this blog title sounds odd ... so often we talk about trusting God when it's hard--when things are rough, when life is unpredictable. But I find my real issues of trust come when times are easy: life is good, I'm happy, and I don't "need" to trust God for anything in particular.
Today, during my workout, I listened to a song by Lecrae called Background. The lyrics read:
I had a dream that I was captain of my soul.
I was master of my fate, lost control, and then I sank.
So I don't want to take the lead
Cause I'm prone to make mistakes.
All these folks that follow me gon' end up in the wrong place.
So, just let me shadow You, and just let me trace Your lines.
Matter of fact just take my pen.
Here, You create my rhymes.
Cause if I do this by myself I'm scared that I'll succeed.
And no longer trust in You, cause I only trust in me.
And see, that's how you end up headed to destruction.
Paving a road to nowhere. Pour your life out for nothing.
The lyrics spoke deeply to me (the whole song is epic--check it out!).
Here's the thing about me: when life gets easy, it's not so much that I need God any less--it's that I trust Him with less, and me with more. And like Lecrae said, "If I do this by myself, I'm scared I'll succeed."
What do I mean by this? I think I am totally capable of succeeding in many areas of my life BY MYSELF. I could probably stop trusting in God right now, and still have a happy marriage, successful job, good friends. And that would be cool to some people (probably most people), but not to me. Because I'm not the centre of the universe, and when life all boils down ... I can't do anything to save myself from my own mortality, my own human-ness, my own proneness to mistake. I need a Saviour ... not just when times are tough, but every day of my life.
So I remind myself, when life is easy, I can't simply forget God and rely on myself. I have to trust Him with even the easy times ... with even the small things. If this sounds scary, it's not. It's one of the greatest joys of knowing Christ--that we are not simply living for ourselves, but for something greater ... the King of the Universe. It's also one of the defining features of a Christian, what sets us apart. We are not just following a "code of good morals", but genuinely trusting in the freedom of Christ.
Paving a road to nowhere. Pour your life out for nothing.
The lyrics spoke deeply to me (the whole song is epic--check it out!).
Here's the thing about me: when life gets easy, it's not so much that I need God any less--it's that I trust Him with less, and me with more. And like Lecrae said, "If I do this by myself, I'm scared I'll succeed."
What do I mean by this? I think I am totally capable of succeeding in many areas of my life BY MYSELF. I could probably stop trusting in God right now, and still have a happy marriage, successful job, good friends. And that would be cool to some people (probably most people), but not to me. Because I'm not the centre of the universe, and when life all boils down ... I can't do anything to save myself from my own mortality, my own human-ness, my own proneness to mistake. I need a Saviour ... not just when times are tough, but every day of my life.
So I remind myself, when life is easy, I can't simply forget God and rely on myself. I have to trust Him with even the easy times ... with even the small things. If this sounds scary, it's not. It's one of the greatest joys of knowing Christ--that we are not simply living for ourselves, but for something greater ... the King of the Universe. It's also one of the defining features of a Christian, what sets us apart. We are not just following a "code of good morals", but genuinely trusting in the freedom of Christ.
