Child like trust…what is it and how do we get it?
Children have an innate ability to go to their parents
asking for things and simply trust and believe they will get it for them. And if they do not get what they want and a
tantrum ensues without breaking this trust, they are disciplined. They trust
time after time that after learning their lesson they will still get what they
asked for when they are ready and can handle such a gift. God is like this with us. Being the faithful
good parent…. are we the faithful trusting children.
You can have child like trust believing for good in any
circumstance you find yourself in because God went to such great lengths to
tear the veil…to tear down the thing that separates us from His Holy
Presence. And that is all we need for
childlike trust and to believe, to go in and sit in the presence of A Holy
Father who will listen and to whom we can listen without fear of anger or
death.
Do not be deceived however that you get to sit in the
presence of God ibecause you got it right. You do not get it right ever. You do not go in because of repentance or any
good thing you have done. You go into
the throne room in His Presence because JESUS GOT IT RIGHT FOR YOU….
Continually gets it right for you.
He got it right, became the perfect acceptable sacrifice so
you can ask the Father for anything in His will and if you believe that
you have it, it will be yours. (Matt 21:21-22; John 14: 12-13) However to know the will of the Father you
must first go in and sit a while in the presence of God, seeking Him and His
will with all your heart.
This is our standard; the standard Jesus modeled and puts
into us if we are willing to receive it.
In Hebrews we find much guidance and wisdom for it says:
God promised everything to the Son
as an inheritance (Heb 1:1)
And He also promised
…If we are
faithful to the end…trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed…we
will share in all that belongs to Christ… (Heb 3:13-14)
Wow what an incredible inheritance. And we get to pass this
inheritance onto our children. What an
awesome thing.
But it also comes with a warning:
Be careful dear brothers and
sisters. Make sure that your own hearts
are not evil and unbelieving turning away from the living God. (Heb 3: 12)
This unbelief is a biggie.
Our unbelief causes us to loose out on all that God has promised to
us. Unbelief is turning away from God, believing
is the opposite. It is turning to seek
the Lord with all your heart.
So if we share in what belongs to Christ then what exactly belongs
to Christ?
Everything! Listen we are privileged to share in
everything, the good, the bad and the ugly.
If through the trials and sufferings we learn obedience as Christ
learned obedience through his trials and sufferings and have a deep
reverence for God…remaining faithful, trusting firmly, believing,
turning toward God, not away, offering up prayers and pleadings with a loud cry
and tears believing …trusting God who can rescue us. (Heb 5:7-8) we get to
share in everything.
Everything includes the blessings and the trials
Jesus learned obedience through His suffering in order that
He would be obedient , trusting and faithful to the very end, laying down His
life so God could tear the veil that separated a Holy God from an unholy people.
What is everything? Everything
is God’s glory-the fullness of the measure of Christ, which is the very image,
or character of God.
Christ in you the hope of glory
(Col 1:27)
Often we hear of glory in reference to Shechinah glory. Although this term is not used in the bible
it is a Chaldee word later used by the jews to refer to the resting place or
presence of God. There are many
allusions to this Shechinah in the New Testament but again the word itself is
not used.
Often we hear or read about people trying to get to this
Shechinah glory, in fact it is worshipped by some as the ultimate place we are
to try to
WE can enter into this Shekinah Glory without death because
of the very high price of the blood of Jesus Christ.
If you think little of yourself you must think again. There was a time when I was asking God for a
house on the beach with a view but all the houses were in the million dollar
range and I was complaining I would never get what I wanted and when I stopped
complaining and turned to God and sat with Him awhile He reminded me I was
the million dollar mansion by the beach
Are you thinking little of yourself, feeling sorry for yourself? Well think again. You are not only a
million-dollar mansion, you are more than a million dollar mansion; the price
paid for you by God is immeasurable,
The bible says:
Christ as the Son is in charge of God’s
entire house and we are Gods house (h
Heb 3:5)
His million-dollar mansion bought with and paid for by the
very precious blood of Christ. And Christ is in charge of us.
So if we are million dollar mansions given everything that
is Christs- all of Gods character and Christ is in charge of use and in us to
the full measure (John1)
How then shall we
live?
The bible says:
Gods throne endures forever and He
rules with justice and God anointed God the Son pouring out the oil of joy on
the Son more than anyone else…to rule with justice and …He is always the same
(Heb 1:8-12, 13:8)
If this is true (which it is) and if Christ is in charge of
us, the most expensive house on the block and He rules with justice and
joy…well then…
We must listen very carefull to the
truth we have heard or we may drift away from it. For if every act of
disobedience and violation of the law was punished what makes us think we can
escape…so what makes us think we can ignore this great salvation? (Heb 2:1-2)
Listen the violation of the law was already punished once
for all time by the death and blood of Christ.
Hallelujah we don’t have to take that punishment this is our salvation
DON’T IGNORE IT!
However this does leave one thing that is still punishable
OUR DISOBEDIENCE.
And if Christ learned obedience through his trials and
sufferings and if God disciplines us as children whom He loves we can be sure God will allow
trials and sufferings to discipline us because He loves us as children and
these trials and sufferings
are achieving for us a glory that
far outweighs them all. ( II Cor 4:17)
Listen we must turn toward God, toward Jesus in these times
of trouble or trials or testing and not turn away. To turn away in unbelief, distrust is to turn
our back on God, much like a stubborn obstinate child in rebellion of their
discipline for throwing a tantrum when they do not get what they want. . And when a child is stubborn and obstinate
not yielding to what is to be learned in the discipline it just prolongs the
time before the good gift can come. So
lets not prolong our time out!
The devil would love to deceive us by distracting us to get
us focused-to get our attention on
Our selves
Our
problems
Our misery
Even the good things such as
The Shekinah
glory
The
blessings
Our selves,
What God will give us, What God is not giving us
Even our own repentance,
We can mistakenly think in our hearts that it is because of
our repentance we will get the good things of God. Its not, repentance just ushers in the mercy
of God based on what Jesus did and we get God’s blessings and gifts because of
His goodness, not our rightness, repentance calls on Christ’s rightness in us
Look it is not about us whether good or bad, It is all about
Jesus, all about God. So we must listen
carefully to what God is saying or even not saying. God is sometimes silence and that is His speaking
as well.
Oswald Chambers writes in My utmost For His Highest
10/11/2016
When He heard that Lazarus was
sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. (John 11:6)
Has God trusted you with His
silence-a silence that has great meaning? God’s silences are actually His
answers. Just think of those days of
silence in Bethany. Is there anything
comparable to those days in your life?
We must remember Martha is a picture of sacrifice, Mary a
picture of Obedience through worship.
And while God loves obedience more than sacrifice (I Sam 15:22)
It says in the previous verses to John 11:6 that Jesus loved
them all. And Yet He stayed where He was.
Oswald Chambers goes on to say:
Can God trust you like that? God
will give you the very blessings you ask if you refuse to go any further
without them, but His silence is the sign that He is bringing you into an even
more wonderful understanding of Himself…. Are you mourning before God because
you have not had an audible response?
Complaining in your heart by lack of trust or worry or
fretting or even mourning because you are not getting what you wanted and you
repented already or you are not getting a visible answer.
When you cannot hear God, you will
find that He has trusted you in the most intimate way possible-with absolute
silence, not a silence of despair, but one of pleasure, because He saw that you
could withstand and even bigger revelation.
If God has given you a silence then praise Him- He is bringing you into
the mainstream of His purposes…. (Obedience, worship, peace) For a while you
may have said, “I asked God for bread but He gave me a stone instead (Matt: 7:9-11).
He did not give you a stone and today you find that He gave you the bread of
life (John 6:35)
A wonderful thing about God’s silence
is that His stillness is contagious- it gets into you, causing you to become
perfectly confident sot that you can honestly say. I know that God has heard me”.
Because through your trials you have learned to reverently
fear Him and God hears us because of reverent fear.
If Jesus Christ is bringing you
into the understanding that prayer is for the glorifying of His Father then He
will give you the first sign of His intimacy-silence.
Whether God is answering audibly or manifesting His answers
or is answering in His silence we must listen carefully to the message that
says:
Today when
you hear His voice do not harden your hearts
As Israel
did when they rebelled, when they tested Me in the wilderness
Their
hearts always turn away from me. They refuse
to do what I tell them.
(Heb 3:7-11)
We must
Make sure that your own hears are
not evil and unbelieving turning you away from the living God…For if we are
faithful to the end (of each and every trial or suffering) trusting God just as
firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to
Christ. (Heb 3:12-15)
What a promise.
So we must ask ourselves today where is my heart? Is my behavior and words speaking trust, and
belief in spite of my circumstances? Am
I turning to God and God alone and not his blessings, his signs and wonders,
his spiritual gifts all which are from God but for the sole purpose to give
testimony to Jesus so we would turn our hearts toward Jesus and worship the
amazing sacrifice He made so God could tear the veil and we could come in and
sit in the very presence of a Holy God.
Does my life reflect the incredible worth of who I am in
Christ based on the incredible worth of the price paid for me or does my life
reflect the dissatisfaction and distractions of the enemy who is stealing
something very valuable from me…My CHILD LIKE JOYFUL TRUST.
