Growing up in church the familiar hymn Trust and Obey was one that I heard quite regularly. While its melody is not one that particularly moves me to inspiration its lyrics are particularly fitting for the Christian life. Especially mine. "Trust and Obey for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to Trust and obey." To me this line has always been routine and familiar but here lately its taken on a new shade of meaning.
Trust and Obey is a motto that more than anything else I must preach to myself. And to properly allow that message to penetrate my life it takes doing both the trusting and the obeying. I fear for far too long many Christians like myself have become so familiar with that tune we think of them as a unit together and not two individual and distinct challenges we must heed in the Christian life. Trust entails belief, faith, and total submission of all that I hold dear to God. While obeying is listening to and practicing what He has told me.
So what is that? What has He told me. There are thousands of things, but one message stands above all the others right in my life. Reading last night with my wife (something I must do more of) God impressed on my heart a verse I have read numerous times. Philippians 4:6 "do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God."
I don't know about you but I love to be anxious about something. If its not one thing its another. Constantly worrying myself to death about whatever it is that is going on in my world. Hoping that what I want to happen will. God's word commands me not to do that. This may be one of the hardest sins to conquer right now in my life. And I bet this is one of those "Respectable Sins" we all struggle with and don't really deal with and repent of. God help me and anyone else readin who does to stop and give the worry back to You.
Trust and Obey sounds like a simple cliche but it most definitely is not that. Hope this will challenge and encourage be blessed.
Brock
