What is trust?

While on my way back on the bus yesterday, I pluck on to my mp3 to listen to the chinese album by our church. This album is truly anointed. From someone who does not understand Mandarin and is clueless as to what the worship leader is singing, I could still sense His love so strongly =)

I then saw a picture of a lady who's marriage is breaking down. As I thought of her, I started asking myself, "What can she do to save the marriage?" I asked Him many times. I know that by cooking a more delicious meal, by waking up earlier, by listening to his demands, it will not turn her husband's heart who have been cold. She is really not in a position to save the marriage herself. She can cry over her mistake, over the spill orange that spark the fight or the the morning she overslept and fail to prepare him the meal. But we know all this is vanity.

Then the Lord brought this picture to illustrate to me my situation. It's evident in a marriage she cant do anything but in other areas like finance, we still think we can do something.I ask the Lord, "If it's so evident in a broken marriage that the lady cant do anything to save it, do I also not do anything since I cant save or undo my mistakes"

I then saw this. He said the same lady will still do the same thing each morning. Prepare the meal and getting up early each morning. But she do it not out to save her marriage but because she love her husband. And I saw her at her bedroom just spending time with the Lord and letting Him love her. She no longer do it out of works but of rest knowing that the promise of a good marriage is by the Lord.

I was reading the story of the three men thrown in the fire the other day and one verse that really hit me was this, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who believed in, trusted in, and relied on Him!..Daniel 3:28. I would marveled and meditate on those verse. Many times I read of great man of God being delivered and blessed when they trust in Him.

I always ask the Lord of what he meant by trust. When I saw the picture of the lady, I saw what it meant. I saw grace. When all else fails, you are not in a position to do anything but to just simply rely on Him in quiet confidence to come through for you.That is trust.