Do I REALLY Trust God, or me?!

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God is more pleased with my trust than my uncertainty.

This has to start with righteousness.... Do I trust in the God of my righteousness, or am I uncertain how He feels because I know where my weaknesses lie?

Satan works very hard to keep a person uncertain of God's love for them. When I feel good because I do good, and feel bad where I am weak, I am trusting in myself, and not God. This leaves me always uncertain about how God truly feels about me, and is the exact place the fall of man left us. We have to get out of self leadership, which always judges things self-righteously.

I am supposed to humble myself and start seeing God's righteousness in me.  When I am confident in God's love for me, then I stop letting my performance determine my confidence in my relationship with God.

My fickle experience of confidence in my performance never ACTUALLY changes my ability to perform! That is the irony. Relying on myself and my ability to perform righteousness leaves me exactly in the same place, just running in circles.

But!  When I am confident in God's unwavering love and devotion to me ... His willingness to give His Spirit if I ask... Not based on my performance, but my NEED... Then my entire paradigm of living changes.  I begin changing instead of striving in vain. 

This is what it means to be "born again." To be re-born into a new understanding and leadership that relies on God's strength and not man's strength.

My relationship with God was never, and never will be, dependent on me being strong to follow Him... It's always been, and always will be, dependent on His strength and His willingness to lead me if I will simply believe the things HE says HE feels about ME. He loves me and knows I am dust. He made me to be dust without Him. 

If I am confused about How God feels about me, all I have to do is look at that empty cross.  God loves me, like He loves Jesus.  Not only does the cross show me how far God is willing to go to save me, it also shows me how to embrace that salvation.

John 17:23 NKJV — “I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

The Father sent His only Son not just to pay the price for my failure to follow, but to show me how to let God lead me both out of my will, and into His.

God's will resurrects what is willing to yield to Him, even to the death of flesh.  If my failure is never "grabbed onto by me and put aside," His victory can never be embraced.  I need to see my failure for what it is: complete. Then, and only then, can I see Yeshua's victory for what it is: complete.

Arrogance in me says, "be good for God." This is an unsaveable attitude because it never yields my certain failure to God's certain victory.  On the other hand, humility in my mouth says, "tell God how much, and how deeply, you need and trust Him and HE will save you from your failure."

Man doesn't have a problem man can solve. We have a problem only God can solve.  That makes weakness the place He connects to my life, not strength.

The liar says, "you better follow God better." The truth says, "I came for sick, not the well."

Luke 18:9-14 NLT — Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else: “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not a sinner like everyone else. For I don’t cheat, I don’t sin, and I don’t commit adultery. I’m certainly not like that tax collector! I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’ I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”


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