Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.” In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, (Deuteronomy 1:29-32 NIV)
The thing about God is that he has not once given us any reason to not trust him.
He has not once failed us or left us or broken a single promise.
He has been faithful through every moment and season.
He has shown us time and time again that he is worthy of our complete trust.
The thing about us is we find it hard to completely trust him.
Why is that?
Maybe it has a lot to do with our human nature, we want to have control over our lives and by putting our complete trust in God we surrender that control to him.
Maybe it's that we were born into world were people are incapable of being 100% faithful and so we learn to distrust and in doing that we perceive God to be the same.
The fact is that even after God showing us his faithfulness and keeping his promises every single time as if He has to prove himself to us, we struggle to give him our complete trust.
But the truth is that until we do that, He cannot fight for us.
He only does as much as we let him do, with as much of us as we give him.
So if we are holding onto anything in the hopes that we could do it better, we are fooling ourselves.
We will forever be fighting a loosing battle with weapons that are only effective if we place them in his hands.
So we must choose in spite of ourselves to place everything we have into his hands.
We must choose to let him fight for us, just as he has done before.
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