Borderless Trust

trust

“Give me borderless trust!”

“(Israel) even spoke against God himself, saying,
 ‘God can’t give us food in the wilderness.

Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out,
 but he can’t give his people bread and meat.’”

Psalm 78:19,20 New Living Translation

 I love it when in a worship service ‘we’ quit singing and ‘I’ start singing. It’s not that everybody else stops while I keep going, it’s just that now I’m involved regardless of what’s going on around me. It happened yesterday.

 Singing Hillsong’s powerful song “Oceans” I found myself fervently desiring for God’s Spirit to ‘lead me where my trust has no borders’. Trust that has no fences around it can be turned in any direction and it will move confidently out. Trust without borders doesn’t wait for a consensus vote before obeying. Trust without borders declares boldly that with God, all things are possible, all God’s instructions doable, all horizons limitless.

Trust with borders as Israel displayed above, is constantly having to weigh possibilities and analyze God’s abilities. The underlying question is “Could we” not “should we.” There is a terrible loss of inertia as each new challenge causes us to reexamine God’s credentials.

Trust with borders says,

“God can heal me, but not provide materially for me.”

“God can help me keep my job, but can’t help me keep my kids.”

“God is able to speak to others, but not to me.”

“God can supply others with a mate, but not me.”

The father of the demonized son in Mark 9 had some borders around his faith when he brought his son to the disciples for healing. Obviously he had some faith, but it had crippling limitations. When Jesus entered this discussion the boy was still afflicted, the disciples were frustrated and this dad’s faith was faltering.

“Have mercy on us and help us, if you can” pleads the father! “What do you mean, ‘if I can’ Jesus responds. “Anything is possible if you believe”

And now come the words that began eradicating some trust borders within this father when he says, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!”

 And that request, in essence, was what I was asking for yesterday as I worshipped. I desperately want to believe ‘all the way’ to the answer. I don’t want to be hemmed in by questions of logistics or logic. I don’t want faith that starts toward the answer and then talks itself out of what it came looking for and needing.

This week I desire to look in any direction God points and see absolutely no reason to hesitate believing with all my heart and then moving confidently in that direction. I want borderless trust!

May your journey be one filled with joy!

 

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