Total Trust

I know what this word means, and I know what it means to trust. I almost always have doubts about others to do what they say and that they are who they claim to be. I guess the reason I have those doubts is because I know me. I believe that I am trustworthy. I believe that I have an honorable person. I do have to deal with my own pride and my own sin. I have to fight the enemy often to continue to be someone who can be trusted. The crazy thing about grace is the Lord knows all my thoughts and actions, but He loves me anyway. If I’m around someone that I don’t trust, my systems are all on high alert. I need to be on high alert for the inside attacks of the enemy on my heart, because my heart is his target. I believe the characteristics of trust are built inside my heart. Check this out….

⁹ “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
    and desperately wicked.
    Who really knows how bad it is?
¹⁰ But I, the Lord, search all hearts
    and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
    according to what their actions deserve.”

⁷ “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord
    and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
⁸ They are like trees planted along a riverbank,
    with roots that reach deep into the water.
Such trees are not bothered by the heat
    or worried by long months of drought.
Their leaves stay green,
    and they never stop producing fruit. (Jeremiah 17:9-10,7-8 NLT)

I fall down, He helps me get back up again. Confession and repentance can help restore trust. The Lord knows my heart and can see my heart beyond my actions. I know that He is embarrassed and hurt by some of my actions. He sees me as a project that need continuous building and shaping. He keeps working on my heart because all the activities and actions of my life flow from there.

I want the Lord to have complete run of my heart. I want Him to examine my heart often and forensically. I don’t want Him to miss anything. I want Him to help me see the deceit, dishonesty and pride that seeks to make their home there. In fact, there are scars on my heart left by previous pride. I want the Lord to have my whole heart. I want to totally trust Him to do what He needs to do in order to make more room for His Spirit to live in my heart daily.

Pressing On!

Dwayne