Ears To Hear # 46

COLD TURKEY
IS HARD TO TAKE

 

And
HARD TO SERVE

       

         This morning I was pouring my heart out in a letter to my older son when I realized that I was saying too much. The message was getting lost in all the trimmings.
         Men think in black and white…they don’t enjoy a lot of trim.
         Okay, then I could just send it in outline form; the things the Lord was showing me and that I wanted to share with him. 
         But when I did that…I realized it would be like “Cold Turkey”. He would not understand “why”, I was saying the things I was saying. There would be very little warmth of Love mixed in with it. Just an old frozen turkey.
         That’s when the scripture came to me: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” (I Peter 3:15).
         Once again, I understood “why” Jesus used so many parables. They were like understanding the foundation…the platform…the platter, if you please…upon which the meal was served.
         If one does not have the time and opportunity to prepare the platter, then the serving could very well be misunderstood. At this point I decided to send another Angel Gram and allow the Holy Spirit to share my thoughts with him if needed. Most of all, to remind him that I love him very much.

AFTER THE COLD TURKEY

         After the cold turkey was cleared from my table, the heart of the meal remained and I decided to go ahead and cook it.

TRUST IS A GIFT

         As I walked down to the river and creek with Banjo, my dog, the Holy Spirit was editing this message. Taking out some things and placing in the most interesting.

WHO CAN WE TRUST?
WHO DO WE TRUST?
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO TRUST ANOTHER PERSON?

         Have you ever said, “I trust that person with my life.”? Then life moves on and maybe you have forgotten that person, now you may say it about someone else in your life. But wasn’t it a grand “feeling” at the time to know that you had someone in your life that you truly trusted?
         That’s when I understood that TRUST IS A GIFT. A little piece of God in someone you know. A gift from God to you. 
         Think about the people on this earth, in your life. Who do you trust? Why? In the natural, it may be because they have proved themselves trustworthy. But what if they fall? What if, from time to time, they have hurt you? Are there some you still trust even when this happens? When you do, you may recognize the Gift God has given you. It’s a wonderful, fulfilling, warm, satisfying gift, even though you are only aware of it from time to time.
         In a perfect world we would all be able to trust each other all the time. We would all like that, I believe. 
         I’m not talking about unwise decisions to trust some of the things these people do. Our first trust is, of course, in God and His Word. I’m  trying to explain “how” you can enjoy the Gift of trust in your fellow man, family, acquaintances, and enjoy the Gift.
         One way, is to ask yourself if there is at least one thing that you trust about that person…even yourself. You may not trust everything about them, but hopefully there is at least one thing. Enjoy it.

WHY SOME MORE THAN OTHERS?

         How does your heart seem to know instinctively that you trust some more than others? It thrills me for you to search this answer for yourself. God will have a good answer that meets your needs today…wherever you are on His Training Field. And it will be good. You can Trust Him.
         There are many reasons we trust some more than others. Yes, a lot is how much time and communication we have with that person, sharing our common beliefs, seeing where we are in agreement. Not having to guess. Speaking truth to each other in Love.
         The answer I have found that satisfies me, is that I instinctively Trust those who Trust me. The more they trust me, the more I trust them. The more they can accept the bad in me, loving the good and accepting it over the bad, the more I trust them. And through honest communication, they learn that I do the same for them.  (At least I want to.)
         Sometimes, we must trust that the other one is doing the best they know to do. And this is sufficient for us to be able to trust our brothers and sisters in the Lord. 

TRUST IN THE NATURAL
IS
LIMITED

[Only the Holy Spirit can show you who and how much to trust someone.]

         For loved ones who do not know the Lord, we may not be able to trust their actions. But there will still be something about them that we can SAY we trust, if we want to enjoy that warm, fuzzy, feeling about them. This is more for our benefit than theirs…because we are the ones enjoying the Gift of Trust…as we understand it now. 
         In the long run, we are not trusting unbelievers, but by recognizing something trustworthy in them, we may be seeing a foundation that God is building on. By speaking a good word over them, the day may come when we see in that particular area of their lives exactly what God desired to come to pass. So, our trust is not in man…but in God.

TRUST CONNECTED TO
LOVE

           

         Trust is so closely connected to love in our emotions, that we often refuse to love someone if we cannot trust them. People who have been hurt deeply and frequently by others, learn early not to trust anyone. Then they become hard to trust and hard to love. 
         I had a group of male students one year that no other teacher wanted. Trouble makers, they called them. But, you know what? God put such a love in me for them that I saw their potential and God gave me inventive ideas of how to bring forth their gifts. 
         The amazing thing was, when I said, “I trust you.” Miracles began to happen in the change of their countenance and actions. We had a great year! I have heard the words coming out of my mouth several times, when I would say to someone, “You know, I trust you. I know you will keep your word.” And they did. Whereas they may not have kept it for someone else. 
         It wasn’t me. It was a Gift from God. It was an overflow of Love from Him to these people. It was His desire that they become trustworthy. And He allowed me to speak the faith words that would prompt them towards being a person that others could trust.
         But all of these words were prompted by Love.

A DESIRE OF GOD’S HEART

         I feel so strongly that it is a desire of God’s heart that all of His children be able to trust each other all the time. That His Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. However, due to the conditions of earth, we understand that we may not presently be able to enjoy this great gift completely. But some day we will. And oh, how we look forward to that time. 

GREAT PEACE IN TRUST

         We understand that we cannot trust man all the time, not even ourselves…but Praise God, we know that we can always Trust God. If He should choose to give us even a little piece of Heaven by placing people in our lives that we can trust…because they trust us, then shouldn’t we enjoy this Gift of Trust? Just as we enjoy God’s Gift of Faith.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.  ( James 1:17)

ENJOY THE GIFT
THE
BEST WAY YOU KNOW HOW