Being Successful Trust

Being Successful

Trust

There are many paths we will take in our life time 

The successful path is the one that gets you to the right place

What fills your heart will determine how straight the path will be

Being successful is not blindly trusting in the Lord

Being successful comes to those who have filled their hearts

With the Word of the Lord and draw upon it in all our ways 

Trust

The beginning of the year, Sandy and I leave

the cold winter in Ohio and go to Florida.

When I was younger I used to drive the 24 hours to get

from cold to hot, from clouds and snow to sun and beach.

At times we drove it straight through and

at times we took rests and made it in days.

Driving took us through mountains that were sometimes

beautiful and other times my knuckles were white

because of the death grip to the steering wheel as

we faced the mountain curves in freezing rain.

  

Now flying has become my choice of transportation;

a direct flight gets us there in 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Straight and level once you reach altitude.

I asked a friend to come down to Florida

for a few days but this friend won’t fly.

Many people have a fear of flying.

They don’t trust a 75 ton Boeing 737

and all its mechanical parts to fly.

 I have seen the safety records of aircraft and

don’t think of the impossibility of 75 tons flying.

 

TRUST

It takes trust to take the straight path for Toledo to Florida.

Proverbs 3: 5 says…

 “Trust in the Lord”

Trusting in the Lord is like trusting in a plane

and a pilot, your life depends on them.

But this trust is not a blind trust.

The verse says…

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart”

The verses before this verse tells us to

keep His commandments in our hearts…

To document love and faithfulness on our hearts.

A heart that is filled with the Word of God

 will find it easier to trust God.

Trusting in God is not always waiting for Him to clear the path.

Sometimes trusting God is doing what He has said to do.

The biggest obstacle to trusting God for the straight path is us.

Our understanding is shaped by the influences in our lives.

 

There are many paths we will take in our life time.

The successful path is the one that gets you to the right place.

What fills your heart will determine

how straight the path will be.

Being successful is not blindly trusting in the Lord.

Being successful comes to those who have

filled their hearts with the Word of the Lord

and draw upon it in all our ways.

 

Scripture Reading

Proverbs 3:5, 6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways submit to him,

and he will make your paths straight.