As I was putting Josiah to sleep last night, this word TRUST came to my thoughts. How a baby born into this world, completely puts his trust in his parents, in his caretakers. He cannot defend himself, he cannot decide what is right or wrong, what food to eat, when to go to bed, when to take a bath. He just puts his trust in you to do all these for him, and know that you are doing the best for him. Complete TRUST. He knows you are there to catch him when he falls, that when you play with him and throw him into the air, you will definitely catch him again and give him the best beary cuddle. He laughs and chuckles without a care in the world, coz he completely trusts you as his security. When it’s raining and the thunder roars, he puts his arm around you trusting you will make it go away. When he falls and hurts himself, he trust that you will run to him and put your arms around him and kiss the pain away.
Our babies trust us so completely. They do not question why we do what we do, of coz, except later years of toddlerhood when great curiousity creeps in. This just led me to think of God and Jesus. God the father TRUSTed us, the human kind so much, that He send Jesus to become a man in this world, that He sent Jesus in the form of all things, a fragile little baby. A baby who could not do anything for Himself, but had to depend and trust 100% on Mary, His mother, in His growing up years. Jesus, who is God, was 100% man and 100% God. But as 100% man, he was born just like us, crying, needing to nurse, needing milk, needing the mother’s secure cuddle, needing to be pacified, needing love from the parents, needing all that Mary can give Him to make Him grow up healthy and strong. I’m sure Jesus had to go through what every baby went through, from lying around helpless, to rolling over, to lifting His head, to crawling, to His first step. I’m sure He did not just came out of the womb and started preaching. I am just amazed at how God Himself was willing to come to the world to become the most fragile little human being, to put ALL HIS TRUST in us to care for Him in order that He may fulfill the purpose and plans of bringing us back to HIMSELF.
And yet, at this moment in our lives, sometimes we don’t even trust God, we don’t even trust that He will take care of all our problems, we don’t even ask Him when we need answers, we don’t even trust that He is in control. We need to be reminded again and again, to TRUST in Him, to consecrate our lives before Him, to surrender to His plans, yet we are constantly frustrated when things don’t go according to what we planned. To trust God is to ask Him to run our lives. We put our trust in everything we can see but Him, we trust our money, sure, we trust our boss, we trust our friends, we trust our doctors, but do we trust our GOD? Our God who trusts us with Jesus? Our God who is completely trustworthy? For so much trust that He has put in me, I am going to trust Him back. It is gonna be a lifelong lesson, a lifelong journey, but this is an action, to trust HIM, which gotta start today.
Blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is.
Jeremiah 17: 7