Entrusting.....

Entrusting.....


Yesterday, I wrote about milestones....birthday of my late husband...(chuckle of his being late. One of our points of contention was being late). Finding out about terminal cancer is a shocker to say the least...or anything that is life threatening can be catastrophic to all the loved ones....

We can choose to fall to pieces , only to be picked up, put back together, stand on our own two feet, resisting the powerful, sustaining help of God....or cling to Him, holding His hand....either way, He works in our lives..lovingly holds us through the ordeal...we can resist acknowledgment  or pour ourselves into His love, soaking up every peaceful moment in the midst of chaos...the latter is so much better...

But, entrusting our loved ones is tough...tough love....natural consequences...not standing in the way of lessons to be learned, events to be met,.....waiting, watching....praying...moving forward...obeying...it all comes down to TRUST....for ourselves and our loved ones...

TRUST is hard, easy, tiring, healing, scary, peaceful, comforting...not easy...I have longed to get to that point where, when something happens, that I immediately say, "I trust what you are doing" without panicking first and trying to find an quick solution on my own....

Did Abraham think those thoughts of panic or did he immediately go forward?  Did he ever doubt?  He had waited a long time for this son....and then told to sacrifice him on an alter ....he followed  through....only to be given a provision at the last moment..a perfect substitution.....God Provides...in his way, in his time...entrusting.....it may not look like what we desire or want, but it will perfectly from Him...


Thank YOU for lifelong lessons of entrusting....they are not easy lessons to be sure, but needful...Your are safe...trustworthy...




"Jesus calling August 23

Entrust your loved ones to Me; release them into My protective care. They are much safer with Me than in your clinging hands. If you let a loved one become an idol in your heart, you endanger that one—as well as yourself. Remember the extreme measures I used with Abraham and Isaac. I took Isaac to the very point of death to free Abraham from sonworship. Both Abraham and Isaac suffered terribly because of the father’s undisciplined emotions. I detest idolatry, even in the form of parental love.

When you release loved ones to Me, you are free to cling to My hand. As you entrust others into My care, I am free to shower blessings on them. My Presence will go with them wherever they go, and I will give them rest. This same Presence stays with you, as you relax and place your trust in Me. Watch to see what I will do.

When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
—Genesis 22:9–12

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…
—Ephesians 3:20

The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
—Exodus 33:14"