One question and that is where do you put your trust is it in someone or in some thing
do you put your trust in some expert do you put your trust in some institution
or instrument if you put your trust in anything like that I can tell you it will fail
because heaven and earth will pass away only God's word and God himself shall stand forever trust to
trust in God there would be a lot less pain in life if you would start with God
and not start with you the proof that we don't trust God even though we declare that
we believe in him is that we turn to other sources first to address life's problems
what you trust is where you go first did you hear me you can always discover what you trust
because you go there first that is what you're banking on and you bank on the
thing you believe will be the best thing to help you so that's where you go first
so if you want to know whether you trust in the Lord answer the question where do I go first
why should I trust in the Lord first the reason that you should trust in the Lord
is because his wisdom is infinite trust is a choice you say well I I want to
trust but I'm just having a hard time with it well see you do trust something
you're either trusting yourself or you're trusting the world or you're trusting your
job or the government or your bank account or somebody else that you know we do trust something
and the point is is we need to get spiritually smart enough to know what to trust and
what not to trust or who to trust and who not to trust we may give a certain amount
of trust to people but don't ever give the trust that belongs to God to another person
because although we can trust other people to some degree we can trust ourselves to some degree
God is the only one that we can completely trust
totally trust and say I believe that you will always take care of me now right away when I say
there's probably some people that are thinking well wait a minute I trusted God and he didn't
come through for me were you trusting God to give you what you wanted him to give you
and so now you're a little bit miffed because you didn't get what you wanted
or are you trusting God to give you his very best for you in his timing in his own way
as a reminder of where we are to put our trust hear what God's word says to God's people
as he reminds us that he is our guiding light
trust in the Lord beginning at verse five chapter three of Proverbs
with all of your heart and lean not to your own understanding and in all your ways
acknowledge him and he will
direct your paths hear this piece of wisdom literature emphatically states trust in the Lord
you know trust is one of those big picture words of resting your confidence on something
you've heard it multiple times when people talk about faith they say when you sat down you didn't
check the seat you just rested your weight on it and actually that is the picture of what trust is
you rest your weight on the confidence that that which is beneath you can sustain you
the word trust means to lay down on it has the idea of putting one's complete weight on it's much
akin to what you're doing right now when you're sitting in the pew when you're sitting in the seat
and all of your weight is resting on the ability of the pew upon which your sitting
to hold you up now in fact you are so secure about the pew's ability to sustain
your weight and everybody on there with you you're not even helping it out
I mean I don't see anybody sitting but kind of pushing themselves up in case
in case this pew doesn't make it I want to make sure I got a little bit of me
in here I know that you want to put trust possibly in bank accounts and security deposits but all of
that can be wiped away by one doctor's visit put your confidence in him who will not leave you
trust in the Lord with all your heart lean not
to your own understanding
whenever you lean on anything other than God chances are you might end in the wrong direction
let me tell you something you can plan your life for one way
and God can change directions let me say it again
you can map your life out to go where you want it to go and God can re-route your route
let me tell you something God has a way of directing our paths
you see in life when you say trust in the Lord God probably won't shine all the light at one time on
where you're supposed to go that's what we always say Lord show me the way and what we're saying is
show me all of the way God says no but what I will be I'll be the light to the edge of where you need
to take your next step and once you take that step I'll move in front of you and then
I'll move in front of you you just make sure you follow the light I'm the light and you follow me
my word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your pathway you follow the light and I'll take you
to where you need to be and he will now don't ask me how he'll do it but I know he'll do it he will
direct your path there's some of you now you're saying I feel like I'm in the maze of life
and I don't know where the exit sign is keep following me he'll direct you back
and when he does you too will be able to see like the one who declares
I know how I got out of this Jesus is my way
Jesus is my truth and Jesus is my life
life if you've lived here long enough you know that it can be tough to navigate many of us here
today would love the opportunity to start over again because we've already run on some rocks
it's full of twists and turns it's full of uncertainties and
many times you don't know what's coming around the bend and yet there seems to be a disconnect
from my faith in Christ to get me to heaven and my trust in Christ
to navigate me on earth there seems to be a disconnect and I'd like to suggest to
you the disconnect is that many of us maybe even most of us don't trust him
you got to take the perspective of Job though he slay me
yet will I trust him see everything's going apart from me now it's killing me now
but I'm still going to trust him I'm going to rest completely and rely completely on him to deal with
this I'm not going to get out of it my own human way that is a way that is unprescribed by him
in all your ways consult him
and he will make your path straight wow make your path straight he will make your path straight
listen to that slowly he will meaning you won't have to he will make your paths straight
it doesn't get any better than that life is crooked finances are crooked marriage is crooked
single life is crooked future is crooked he says he will make your path straight now a
path means you're going somewhere a path is always connected to a destination God
wants you to start trusting him so you can start living again God wants you to trust him entirely
some of you got to let go you've been holding on to your own way of thinking own way of living own
way of operating own way of feeling own way of acting own way of cogitating all of your life and
while you come to church on tomorrow you're going back to your own way and God is saying let go
you say yeah but you don't understand I've held on to that let go
but you don't understand let go but God do you trust me and God is saying if you let go
you can have your life back it's time to let go