02/10/2025
We can’t trust someone unless we know that they are true, honest, faithful in all things, always dependable, and never wavering in their choices, intentions and affections towards us..
Likewise, we can only know that ‘someone’ if we’ve spent adequate time in their presence getting to know them..
The ONLY way to know God, is to spend time with Him in prayer, to spend time in His Word (which. reveals the nature of His unchanging character) and to spend time focused solely on His Goodness towards us in worship..
Without these key elements, we are lost and vulnerable to the harsh ways of a worldly system that wants nothing more than to take literally everything from us, to keep us in poverty and to trap us in a constant state of fear & uncertainty just so the ‘higher-up’s can feel they have some sort of false leverage over us - that we are undoubtedly under their manipulative control.
There is a Scripture which speaks of Jesus, where the religious leaders of the day we’re arguing back & forth on whether to pursue prosecuting Him as a fugitive for breaking their man-made laws (many because He was healing people on a day that was designated as the Sabbath - a holy day set apart for worship that ‘forbids’ any manual labor being done.
One of the wisest of those leaders (Gameliel) spoke the wisest words: that if it was of God, there would be no stopping it; and if it was not, it would simply fail (and die out fairly quickly).
We just might have the choice to succeed or fail in our endeavors; and the actual outcome of anything we choose to do, just might rely on our ability to (1) trust that if it is God’s leading and His will, He WILL absolutely prosper that thing He has placed in our heart to accomplish and (2) our willingness to keep our mind fixed on Him so that He CAN keep us in His Perfect Peace during the process as He works it out.
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.
