Learning to Trust

Learning to Trust

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights (JAMES 1:17).

Matthew 6:25-34

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When I was a teenager I sometimes argued with my mum when she talked to me about God. “Trust Him. He will take care of you,” she would tell me. “It’s not that simple, Mum!” I would shout back. “God helps those who help themselves!”

But those words, “God helps those who help themselves” are nowhere to be found in the Bible. Instead, it teaches us to rely on Him for everything. Jesus tells us to “look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (MATT. 6:26-27).

Everything we enjoy, have and do—even when we’re just getting on with normal, everyday life—are gifts from a heavenly Father who loves us and values us more than we can possibly understand.

As Mum neared the end of her life, Alzheimer’s disease slowly shut down her creativity and memories, but her trust in God stayed strong. During those last months, I was given a ‘front-row seat’ to see God meet her needs in unexpected ways—ways that helped me know she had been right all along. Instead of worrying, she simply trusted the One who promised to take care of her. And He showed Himself to be faithful.

To pray about . . .

Loving Father, please help me to trust you to take care of me today, tomorrow and forever!

DON’T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW- GOD IS ALREADY THERE

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries