Contentment = Trust (Part 3)

God is our loving and faithful Redeemer from Whom every good and perfect gift comes. The more we come to abide in God’s presence the more we fall in love with Him and the more we realize the depths of His everlasting love for us. Love seeks us, love finds us and love saves us. It covers all our sins. It restores what the locusts have eaten. It makes us new. God blesses our lives with the love of family and friends, to walk alongside us, sharpen us and encourage us. But there are times when we are alone and only God is there. We have been called to a certain pilgrimage as wives and mothers. It is lonely at times and challenging. How beautiful to know that God is our Husband and Maker, that He delights in us, sings over us and even saves our tears. He loved us before we ever loved Him, with a perfect, unconditional love that never fails. What a confidence this love places in our hearts, what a fire and a passion it fills us with to live for Him.

This perfect love helps us to trust God. Trusting God gives us a contentedness with where He has us and what He is doing in our life and the lives of those around us. Yes, we do feel like a wave tossed to and fro at times. But the book of James tells us that this is due to doubt. These are the times we take our eyes off the Lord and forget that He is trustworthy and that He loves us with a perfect love. When we lean on our own understanding our path grows very difficult and it is hard to keep going. We start to panic and feel alone. We take things into our own hands and try to control them. When we trust the Lord with all our heart He gently directs our path and we grow closer to Him, loving Him more, trusting Him more and being content with such things as we have.

God calls us to trust Him. What we might think will be a time of weary emptiness can become one of the richest times. God meets us right where we are, exhausted, showerless and feeling very much alone in a little row boat without an oar. We only need to open our heart to Him, put Him first and show up. He is calling each one of us this day to trust Him more, to learn to abide in Him and love Him deeply. “Faithful is He who calls us and He will do it.” 1Thess 5:24.