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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 God’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! ... more texts

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