Who Do You Trust?
When my children were young, we frequently visited H.P. Eels Park in Bettsville, Ohio. It is a stone quarry that was converted into a sand beach park. (All my Ohio Facebook friends know what I am referring to). There was a shallow area for those who could not swim. Beyond the shallow area was the deep area that was roped off. Only those who could swim should go beyond these ropes.
I am going to start with Proverbs 3:5, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” My children would see me in the deep water and would want to come to me. None of them could swim. There were slides that you could go down into the deep water. One at a time, I would hold my arms out and they would let go and come into the deep water and I would catch them. Why would they do this? Refer back to Proverbs 3:5. Their understanding was that they couldn’t swim but they trusted that their father would catch them.
Often in our lives, the water looks deep. We don’t know what to do or where to go. But in God’s eyes it’s not deep. Our Heavenly Father wants us not to lean on our understanding, but trust Him. He wants us to come on down the slide, trusting that we will be caught by Him. I’ll end with this scripture, Jeremiah 17:7-8, “7. Blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. 8. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” This is God’s promise for our lives if we let go and trust Him.
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