Ruthless Trust

Trust. I say I trust God. You say you trust God. Yet we live each precious moment with worry and concern for the outcome of many if not all of the day's events. But is this how Christ wants us to live? I hope not. I hope that Christ doesn't want me to live each day with a shaky, shady trust that is never sure. Is that even trust at all? Is it a form of trust? Or is it just a poor attempt at trust?

I don't believe this is how Christ wants us to live. I believe He wants us to live each day in a faith that is real to us. A trust that doesn't second guess, a trust that is "ruthless" as Brennan Manning puts it. Our trust needs to be an all out attack on the love of God. Depending, loving and believing Him for His goodness and His care of His sheep.

This trust makes us pray like this (as found in Manning's Ruthless Trust) "Abba, into your hands I entrust my body, mind, and spirt and this entire day - morning, afternoon, evening, and night. Whatever you want of me, I want of me, falling into you and trusting in you in the midst of my life. Into your heart I entrust my heart, feeble, distracted, insecure, uncertain. Abba, unto you I abandon myself in Jesus our Lord. Amen."

I believe Manning is absolutely right, that our trust should be more than a generic trust in God. It should be the deep depending trust of the prayer that Manning gives us in his book. Oh, how we should long and seek to have a trust in God with all that we are. A ruthless, unwavering, trust that holds back nothing, but runs fully into Christ's open arms.

Too often, our "faith" becomes generic and conditioned. Its lived out over and over, day after day. We do the best we can to live as a Christian, but that is about it. Being a Christian becomes something that we "do."

May God give us all trust - trust to run into His arms and make this "faith" something real and living and precious. Make it a relationship that is living and breathing and passionate. Make it more than what it has been. Make it all that it can be.

Do you trust Christ like this? I don't everday. I strive to. That is my goal. Maybe you don't have a relationship with Christ at all. He calls us to trust in Him. Maybe now you will see what this trust really is.