Just Need To Trust And Obey

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“Just Need To Trust And Obey”
Psalm 25:4-5 NLT
Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.

The other day, I was reading a devotional from a friend of mine and it was titled “I have no words”. I know that he is going through a very rough time in life and just expressed that he didn’t have the words to convey how he really felt. I honestly felt myself feeling the exact same thing. Knowing his situation and thinking of the difficult challenges my family has experienced lately and so many others have been experiencing lately and for a while now, I find myself at a loss for words.

I am finding myself these days asking so many more questions to God and feeling like I don’t know the answers. I’m finding myself asking these questions so often to God:

Why are you allowing this pain?
Why are so many hurting?
Why won’t you stop and intervene?
When will this pandemic end?
Why do so many have to be so sick?
Why am I facing so many challenges in life?
Why can’t You explain and show me more?


As I’m thinking of these questions and have so many more thoughts and feelings, I’m realizing even more and more now that I must trust Him in every way, even though there’s so much more I don’t understand. I just need Him to show me the path and to lead me in His truth. I need to hope in Him, no matter what.

I need to trust and obey, even when life doesn’t make sense.
 

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“Just Need To Trust And Obey”
Psalm 25:4-5 NLT
Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.

The other day, I was reading a devotional from a friend of mine and it was titled “I have no words”. I know that he is going through a very rough time in life and just expressed that he didn’t have the words to convey how he really felt. I honestly felt myself feeling the exact same thing. Knowing his situation and thinking of the difficult challenges my family has experienced lately and so many others have been experiencing lately and for a while now, I find myself at a loss for words.

I am finding myself these days asking so many more questions to God and feeling like I don’t know the answers. I’m finding myself asking these questions so often to God:

Why are you allowing this pain?
Why are so many hurting?
Why won’t you stop and intervene?
When will this pandemic end?
Why do so many have to be so sick?
Why am I facing so many challenges in life?
Why can’t You explain and show me more?


As I’m thinking of these questions and have so many more thoughts and feelings, I’m realizing even more and more now that I must trust Him in every way, even though there’s so much more I don’t understand. I just need Him to show me the path and to lead me in His truth. I need to hope in Him, no matter what.

I need to trust and obey, even when life doesn’t make sense.
Could it be that our ears are so dull that unless we are shaken dramatically our understanding remains stuck, even in error.

Who knows, the tough times might get us to be self honest even question and ask. The rattling might be the only thing to wake us up?
 

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Could it be that our ears are so dull that unless we are shaken dramatically our understanding remains stuck, even in error.

Who knows, the tough times might get us to be self honest even question and ask. The rattling might be the only thing to wake us up?

I know when I became born again, I was very shaken. It was quite an experience with God. So I would say YES! But it was well worth it.
 
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Trusting becomes difficult with health problems and life challenges. I'm reminded of holding a cat over water, they claw you. Are we ready for the fire baptism?
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“Just Need To Trust And Obey”
Psalm 25:4-5 NLT
Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.

The other day, I was reading a devotional from a friend of mine and it was titled “I have no words”. I know that he is going through a very rough time in life and just expressed that he didn’t have the words to convey how he really felt. I honestly felt myself feeling the exact same thing. Knowing his situation and thinking of the difficult challenges my family has experienced lately and so many others have been experiencing lately and for a while now, I find myself at a loss for words.

I am finding myself these days asking so many more questions to God and feeling like I don’t know the answers. I’m finding myself asking these questions so often to God:

Why are you allowing this pain?
Why are so many hurting?
Why won’t you stop and intervene?
When will this pandemic end?
Why do so many have to be so sick?
Why am I facing so many challenges in life?
Why can’t You explain and show me more?


As I’m thinking of these questions and have so many more thoughts and feelings, I’m realizing even more and more now that I must trust Him in every way, even though there’s so much more I don’t understand. I just need Him to show me the path and to lead me in His truth. I need to hope in Him, no matter what.

I need to trust and obey, even when life doesn’t make sense.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (1 Peter 4:12-17)
 
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You mean, are you ready? You see the guy in my avatar? How he's white? He's white-hot! Lol
 

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Earlier, as I was feeling quite perplexed, I looked at my screen and saw just-need-to-trust-and-obey.
I like it when God does that. :)
 
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He's preparing a weapon fit for it's work. He's tempering me. In the blast furnace of affliction. Like A.W. Tozer says.