Trust: a change in mindset

"Faith without works is dead being alone."

While honesty opens the door to God, trust is the response that lets God in. How is trust exemplified in everyday living? We trust God by submitting to the authority of Scriptures.

We prove our trust for God when we align with the spirit of the scriptures and the spirit of the story. Tremendous power and authority exist in the simple stories of the Bible. That power is activated through trust.

Trusting God points to holiness as a lifestyle and this is the trap every Christian falls into. "I trust God by becoming holy." No, you'll fail thinking like that. Here's a better attitude: "God will bring out holiness in me, as I yield my circumstances to him, using the spirit of the scriptures and the spirit of the story as my compass for decision making.

Thinking this way makes room for the Holy Spirit to begin to show us Biblical perspectives on individual aspects of our lives. Every life is different, and so journeys will be different. The destination, though, is the same for all of us.

Romans 12:1-2 (MSG) "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."

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