Trust Enough

Week Ten | Fifty-Two 3.12.21

We’ve all had (or will have) days, weeks, seasons, and perhaps even years of our lives …

when weariness weighs 

when doubt sinks

when comparison steals

when anxiety drags

when longing consumes

when complaint distorts

when grief numbs

when friends reject

when children leave

when family forgets

when dreams die

when questions shrink 

when justice evades

when fear lies

when Twenty-Twenty exposes and Twenty-Twenty One disappoints 

~ when faith fades

and a price is paid. Just like Moses and Aaron, and all those weary children of God following along...trying to make their own way through all the when’s.

When the only One who had all the answers all along speaks His mind,

“Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land...”

It was a devastating ending to a long journey of Promise. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. 

But God still had a faithful plan and a Promise to fulfill, for a coming generation.

Here, where faith will be made and Glory displayed.

Because

when we’re wandering around, God’s tenderly wondering at the grace He’s gushing out. 

When, in time, He woos our hearts back to

trust enough

so we receive just enough for any and every when.

Because the goal of deliverance isn’t delivery. It’s whole-hearted, holy worship of the One who sometimes and ultimately delivers us. It’s anchoring to the promised One who always-without-fail sustains us.

So when those days, weeks, seasons, and perhaps even years of our lives come in long and lonely, may we confess our renegade ways and return to trusting Him.

Jesus w(he)ns.

{Verse from Numbers 20}