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======Put our trust in him ...======
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010. We are in the middle of Chapter 1 of Ephesians, the
letter which the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus. We have been
working ourselves through the different bits, just to get a basic understanding
of what Paul talks about. Today, we address "trust in him". Lets recall the
relevant sentence first:
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**What does it mean? ...**
13 You also put your trust in him when you heard the true message about him, the good news that we can be saved from evil. Once you trusted in Jesus, you were given GodÂ’s Spirit as a sign that you belong to Christ.
"Trusting in him" is a key thing in the whole New Testament. Trusting in Jesus
saves from judgment, that is one of the central messages of the bible. Of course,
to make sense of this, we need to have at least some vague idea of this judgment.
If we do not know the measuring rod, if we have no idea of the goal and the
way the judgment is carried out, why should we want to be saved? Many people
throughout history have responded: "but I do not want to be saved, I do not
believe in your judgment".
Let us assume that it is clear that God is truly good and full of truth, love,
reliability, trustworthiness, solidarity, help, beauty, ... Let us assume we know
about judgment, that he will establish justice for all. Then: what does
this trust mean?
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**Trust daily in a modern world ...**
Trusting him this morning will start with the knowledge of what is really
important and what is only relatively important. It is really important to be
with the Lord, to know that he is there. His presence will completely change
my day. He is more than just a vague idea. He is the living God, in fact
a wonderful being, full of wisdom, of ideas, of possibilities, of reliability.
Trusting him will change my decisions, even the little ones about my next break.
I can and will pray for my colleagues. I will ask the Lord to fill them with
his wisdom, with his blessing, to come to them with his Holy Spirit. He can
change everything ... he gives us thousand examples in the Old Testament and in
the new one as well.
Trusting him means that I put truth and trust first, gain and earnings second.
I trust that when I put trust first, I will have enough, I will have even
more than without my trust in the Lord, when the time is there, when HIS time
has come. He will provide what I need and more than that. Thus, trust is
strongly linked to the struggle of life, in the middle of a booming economy as
well as in the middle of crisis. With the danger of loosing the job, the danger
of small retirement pensions, the danger of illnesses and accidents every day.
We can and should trust him in the middle of our modern world, we need him
here to shape ourselves and to shape our future!
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