My talk today is on "Trust in the Lord". I am not a skilled speaker when it comes to a situation that I am currently in right now speaking to you, so I typed this whole thing so that I can read it to avoid the mistakes from the last time I was up here to give a talk. I picked the topic of trust in the Lord because it is something that I have really been thinking a lot about in the last few months, that, and it was one of the topics that Brother Allen had listed.
Nevertheless, it is something that I have been doing a lot of thinking about. There comes a time when we have to realize that in this world and the way it is, that we can not trust in anyone and not even ourselves in the same way as we can trust in the Lord. That, I believe is because He is perfect and we are not. Also, because He stands in a superior position than us so that He may guide us with His perfect wisdom.
I guess that we can try to trust in others the way that we should trust in the Lord but it wouldn't work nearly as well as having that trust for someone who it is due for and deserves it. That is one of the things that I had to learn in my life. I guess what I am going to say has something relating to the scripture saying for us not to trust in the "arm of flesh".
This is difficult for me to describe it in the exact way that I learned it or understand it, to adapt the teaching into something for you all to understand because I don't know of all the things that you have been through in your life. But I do know that since I was thinking this as I typed it, it sould do much better than the conditions that I gave my last talk.
But about trusting too much in others, is something that I seen that doesen't work as well as trusting in the Lord. What I mean also has some thing to do with self-reliance because when there is a situation most of the time that I need help in, I never get as much help from anyone as the amount of help that I get from the Lord.
It seems that most of the time I am on my own in doing things most of the time. That is where I really recongize that trusting the Lord really makes the difference. Because when you are in a difficult or an emergancy situation, the Lord is all that you have. When there comes times when I trust people to handle situations for me, I feel that I always get let down by others. Not all of the time but only in the situations where their help is not required or within the wisdom of the Lord to be used.
I believe that the reason is because I need to learn and to do things for myself as part of my learning experiences and purposes here on earth at this time. But who better of a teacher than the Lord Himself? I can think of none at this time. There are many scriptures that deal with reminding us to trust in the Lord. The standard works of scripture show us many examples of where trust in the Lord is not only something that we should do, but it also shows us things that reveal the reasons why we should trust in the Lord.
Since the greate changes that have had their begining in my life starting about three years ago, I have depended heavily on the Lord and sometimes have not known it. But in the last two years I have mostly known that I depend on the Lord. I am mostly speaking on my own experiences and not telling much from the scriptures because you have the scriptures to read but you don't always have my experiences to hear about.
But not only that, but at this time when I prepared this, the most dominate things to discuss were those that I wanted to share, that might add some insight on how we individually should rely upon the Lord. Each of us living in this world, the same world, but we live in such differing situations and experiences, to learn so many lessons, as seen fit by our Lord.
Is it clear now more than ever, that our trust should ultimately be in the Lord? If this were a training excercise, who better than to recieve advice and instruction from than the Leader of that training excercise? These are some of the many things that I have been thinking lately as things change in my life. The thing that never changes is that the Lord is still there teaching us and offering guidance as long as we will recieve and trust in it from Him.
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