Dear Hope family,

Thought for the Week

Trusting in God

Proverbs 3v5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”  (NIV)

The question, “How much faith have you got?” is not as important as, “What have you put your faith in?”. (see Matthew 17v20)

On Sunday, Tony highlighted how God can be trusted because he is reliable, true and able.

Therefore we should not ask, “How does my faith compare to someone else’s faith?”, but, “Do I trust God more than I trust this other thing?”.  “This other thing” could be money, possessions, relationship, ability, political system, health, hard work, way of doing things … etc. Of course, none of those things are wrong of themselves. Indeed it is right to have any and all of these, but compared to God they are all ultimately unreliable. Only God is ultimately reliable, able and true.

Tragically, for people in Ukraine, Turkey and Syria this is painfully obvious this week as so many have lost so much of the things of this life. So let’s examine ourselves, “In what area of life am I needing to put my trust in God and declare it to be so?”

I pray that we will each have our trust in God before He both “gives and takes away”. (Job 1v21)

With love and blessing,

Roland