my greatest struggle

My greatest struggle, is probably yours too, if no it's close: trust.  Throughout life you and I will constantly be faced with some hard decisions, in which the hardest decision will be to trust God.  Too many times i let my circumstances affect my view of the outcome.  Sure we read and study and know scripture that tells us "with God all things are possible", however real life makes that easier said than done.

In my devotion this morning, these verses really challenged me:

^3 Now there were four men with leprosy^ at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? ^4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.” (1 kings 7:3-4) (NIV)

These four men where faced with death, literal death, they could either stand around and not make a decision (which by the way to not make a decision is making a decision) and die, OR they could wander into enemy camp and TRUST God to take care of their needs.  Well, let's throw something else in here, people with skin disease (leproasy) were not allowed to enter a camp or city.  So in fact not only where they going to TRUST God to walk into an enemy camp but they also where going to break to law.  Now that is trusting God my friends without knowing how things would turn out, at all!!! So here is the end of the story:

^5 At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, not a man was there, ^6 for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!” ^7 So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

^8 The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp and entered one of the tents. They ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also. (2 kings 7:5-8)

 

So they trusted God and EVERYTHING worked out.  Was a great challenge to me, I have GOT to learn to trust God with Everything!

 

Have a blessed day and weekend, be sure to go worship somewhere :)