🎶🎶“When we walk with the Lord,
in the light of His Word, what a glory He sheds on our way…” 🎶🎶
That opening line from the hymn “Trust and Obey” never fails to stir something deep within me. Maybe it’s the melody or the profound truth it carries.
This week, we will explore two additional steps to partnering with God: Trusting in God and obeying God.
Trust in God
Have you ever looked at someone and asked, “Do you trust me?”
It’s such a loaded question. Whether spoken amid chaos or calm, it’s a question that reveals the heart. Sometimes, it’s a plea for reassurance. Other times, it’s a reminder of a proven track record, a call to remember past faithfulness.
That’s exactly what I believe God asks us the moment we decide to walk with Him.
“Do you trust Me?”
Although we know that trusting God isn’t always easy. Especially when the path is unclear or when life feels more like a storm than a smooth sail. But you can not truly permit a God that you do not trust, and the beauty of trust is that we only truly surrender to those who have our best interests at heart.
So when Proverbs 3:5 reminds us to
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” It’s an invitation to lay down whatever we think we feel or can do for ourselves.
An invitation To trust His Fatherhood, His Sovereignty, and His Faithfulness.
Jeremiah 29 vs 11also reassures us
“ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope”
A journey with God is a life of complete trust in God.
Obedience ;Your consecration and sacrifice
I love to say that Obedience is how God teaches us to love Him His way.
In our journey with God, He gives us general commandments; we have clear standards and expectations in Scripture, however, He also gives specific instructions tailored to the demands He places on our lives.
Remember the parable of the talents? (Matthew 25:14–30)
To one, He gave five. To another, two. And to another, one. Each according to their ability. An ability that was only determined by the Master.
It wasn’t just a random distribution—it was purposeful. And so it is with us.
That’s where consecration and sacrifice come in.
To some, obedience to God will be in consecration, and to others, it will be in sacrifice. Many may be both.
Consecration means setting yourself apart for God. It’s choosing to live in a way that God asks you to even if it seems different from standards that are generally acceptable.
Many times, this is because of what He wants to preserve about the uniqueness of your journey.
Sacrifice involves letting go of things or even people that are of so much value to you(either temporarily or permanently). Not because God does not want you to be happy, or those things are necessarily bad. It could be because they don’t align with God’s predesigned blueprint for your life, or He wants to use that process to build something in you.
And through a life of obedience you get to know what He wants us to do, exactly how He wants you to live because He has been in your future and He knows how to get you there.
Your relationship with God is personal, and so is your journey. Consecration and sacrifice helps us shed unnecessary weights and desires, directing our focus to what truly matters, or rather, who truly matters: Our God.
Till next week.