[TruthTalk] Trustworthy?

[ShieldsFamily]

Bill, In my experience Jesus has not always been entirely someone I can trust in every sense of the word.  Sometimes He is quite beyond any possibility of my understanding, let alone “trusting” Him.   (Many times I have asked my husband, “But what can I trust Him FOR?” And he cannot answer, other than that ephemeral “eternal life”.) Sometimes Jesus makes NO sense whatsoever to me.  Can you trust that nothing horrible will happen to you or someone you love tomorrow? Sometimes He is totally unsafe, unreliable, and incomprehensible.  (Am I alone in this?) Yet, in the end, I find that I must belong to Him anyway---where else can one turn? There is No One, and Nothing, if not Christ.  One must trust that one day we will understand, even when we could not trust Him for everything here and now.  My husband trusted in Him to return his children, who were taken from him without cause by an adulterous wife.  He still waits, twelve years later, for God’s retribution.  Job trusted, but was shocked by what happened to him.  We have ALL been disappointed when we trusted the Lord, at one time or another.  In short, I don’t love Him, or repent of my sins, because I am comfortable “trusting” Him to protect me, necessarily, from the horrors of this world.  I simply do it because He is Lord.  His Word is trustworthy.  But often His answering of prayers is not.  I believe we will someday understand why.  Izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wm. Taylor I believe that people are desperate for someone in whom they can trust. Jesus Christ is completely trustworthy. When the Gospel is presented in terms of the indicatives of grace --"This is Jesus Christ . . . ; this is what he has done for you . . . ; this is who you are in him . . ."-- repentance flows quite naturally (and before you pounce, I say "naturally" not in a humanistic closed-system sense, but in the sense that all of a sudden repentance is the only thing that makes sense in your life). All of a sudden you cannot wait to change your mind, to begin to take captive every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ.