Childlike Trust Requires an Air of Mystery – Trusting God Through Grief and Loss
Childlike trust requires an air of mystery. The very concept of trust lends itself to the idea of a father, child relationship.
I have a spiritual mentor who recently lost his wife to cancer. God has healed many through this man’s ministry. He’s travelled the world seeing testimony after testimony of God performing the miraculous in the lives of others. He’s seen two people raised from the dead in his ministry. Dealing with illness and dealing with people who God has healed is not foreign to this man. Yet, his wife died of cancer.
I learn so much from people who are going through things. It’s easy to praise the Lord when things are going well. It’s easy to praise the Lord when the sun is shining and the bills are paid and the kids are in school and there are no problems in your life. But I tend to learn my deepest lessons from observing how Christians conduct themselves in bad times.
When this minister spoke last Sunday, he said that there are certain times and certain events in our lives that are one off opportunities. One off events. One off times when we can glorify God in that one instance and if we miss it, the opportunity will be gone forever. Experiencing the loss of a loved one is one of those opportunities.
Childlike Trust Must Be Displayed In The Here And Now
When we die and go to heaven, there will be no sense of grief, no sense of loss, and no depression. We will praise God and worship God throughout eternity in heaven. The only opportunity we will have to praise Him in grief, in sorrow, in sickness, and in depressed situations is here on this earth. So, he’s using this opportunity to lift up holy hands and to exhibit childlike trust that says, I know that you can heal, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen in this instance. But I still trust you. I still love you. I still lean on you.
Childlike trust requires an air of mystery. If a child knew everything, there would be no trust involved. Childlike trust requires an air of mystery. My mentor doesn’t know why his wife died. He doesn’t know why they prayed over a period of two years and did everything they knew to do, yet she died. But it’s an opportunity to exhibit childlike trust by expressing to God, “I love you, I will never turn my back on you, I’ve seen too much and you’ve been too good in my life for me to doubt your love for me even in this loss”. In times of loss, don’t miss the opportunity to praise God. Watch the video “Childlike Trust Requires an Air of Mystery – Trusting God Through Grief and Loss”.
WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
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