Who has not had a troubled moment while looking at the behaviour of people, strangers or those we know. I was thinking about that this morning at 4:00am. These thoughts kept rolling over in my mind. I was making up all kinds of conversations to get to the bottom of things. Let me just tell you, it was doing nothing to help me sleep! Everything is worse at night if you are one of those sleep challenged people, you might understand. We are not at our most rational.
I was praying this morning about this mind-boggling situation and that well known verse came wandering into my mind. “ Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean NOT on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5
I felt like God was reminding me I do not know the whole story, nor do I know what people are truly thinking. Only God knows that. His request of me this morning is that I would trust Him in the middle of this. Maybe one day, I will have a conversation and bring some understanding, but not before I trust Him.
It is curious that God’s request is for my whole heart to trust Him, not just a corner of it. We know that He will work it out somehow. He will change them or maybe God will change me ; perhaps both!
I am reminded that while people are hard to understand, I know that there are times when I am also a bit of a mystery. My husband will certainly not argue that point!
God asks us today to trust Him with our whole heart and not put too much weight on our own understanding as it is very limited. We don’t know the whole story, but God does.
While we are busy working on trusting Him, if you are feeling hurt in all of this because of this mind-bending behavior. Bring that pain and disappointment to God. He is not going to say, “ you shouldn’t feel that way”. I do not like when people say that! When I feel hurt, that is not going to change a thing let me tell you! I can take my pile of hurt feelings to God and then work through forgiving people who have hurt me and let me down.
I love thinking that in the middle of this, we have a Heavenly Father who loves us perfectly and every moment of each day, no matter what is going on!
Leave the confusing people to God dear friend and anything that goes with it. He is trustworthy!
Dear Father,
Thank You for being trustworthy. I entrust the people in my life to You. I lean on You today rather than my own understanding and assumptions. I confess, I do not know everything going on in them. Thank You for Your constant love for me.
In Jesus Name,
Amen