Trust: Leaning off the bridge

The world is like a bridge. The wise man will pass over it, but he'll not stop and build his house on it.
- Unknown

Lord, you know that I've been trying to build my house on the bridge of this life for some time. I have all these plans of what I want to do, but no ideas how to do them. I can get so frustrated trying to get my life to turn out how I want it to, when I should be trusting in you.

The cause of our discontentment is simply because we do not believe God. The wilderness leads to the Promised Land... Do we think we can find a better way to God?
- Elizabeth Elliot

It can be very tough to trust in God to look after your life. After all, who would ever want to trust in something you can't even see, and hope that it will look after you?

I guess thats why God made some vital things invisible, like gravity and air, things that we have to rely on each day to help us survive. It is simply so that we can realise that we can trust them, even if we can't see them, and we can trust Him too.

If you're having trouble trying to give your life over to Him, look at some of the promises He has given you. I carry a book of quotes around with me, and most of them are bible verses. I haven't been looking at them enough lately, as I've tried to run my own life, but there is power in them.

He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.
- Job 36:16

God's plan for our lives doesn't end with this life. The world we live in is by no means perfect, so God has prepared a place even better for us. Instead of focussing on this life, and trying to get all we can out of it, we should try to focus on God, and plan for the eternity to come.

We may find ourselves restricted in this life, perhaps even trapped, unable to do the things we want to do, when we want to do them, and in the ways we want to, but if we trust in God, rely on Him, lean on Him, then He will lead us on to everything good He has planned for us.