Trust the Lord with all your Heart

Today, I am deeply grateful for those of you who have supported the Dial Hope Foundation with a financial donation. So many people benefit from your giving!

There’s an old story, no doubt apocryphal, about a tightrope walker who stretched his line across the span of an enormous waterfall. After making an initial walk safely across, the stuntman asked a spectator, “Do you believe I can push this wheelbarrow across this same thin rope?” The spectator thought for a moment and said, “Yeah, sure.” “Great,” said the acrobat. “Jump in the wheelbarrow.”

While I might believe he could perform the feat, I know I wouldn’t trust the acrobat with my life. I hope you wouldn’t either. But I do hope that you trust God.

Sometimes God invites us to take steps that are scary: God may very well call you into the mission field, or to help feed the homeless at a downtown shelter. God may call you to give away more of your money or time than you are comfortable with. Or, God may call you make amends with someone who has wronged you. It may be hard to take that kind of leap of faith. It may very well feel like you are jumping in the wheelbarrow.

I remember a number of years ago now when my friend Charlie Landreth talked about his grandmother Celia. He said he could remember sitting on her lap in her rocking chair – her arms would be extended around him. She would read to him sometimes from the Bible and sometimes from a book. “Trust the Lord with all your heart”, she would say.

Charley said, “It’s been almost a whole lifetime since that early instruction and I am still learning to trust the Lord. You see, I’m a slow learner.

Aren’t we all, Charlie? Aren’t we all?

Let us pray: God of Grace, we know that you love us just as we are – but that you constantly invite us to grow. We also know that as we listen to your voice and respond to your call, our lives are filled with meaning and depth. O Lord we believe. Help our unbelief! Grant us ears to hear you even today. Grant us hearts to trust you, and the courage to respond. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.