Trust Me!

This week as we were in Missouri my husband and I went to a local restaurant.  It was an open buffet type of restaurant.  You walked up to the cashier, paid for the buffet and then piled it on. 

We sat in some booths and I carried my purse as I went to the salad bar.  We then came back to our seats and were next to an older couple [older than us lol] and they continued to eat.  We talked and discussed the events of the day including what was to come tomorrow. 

There was no need for us to return to the salad bar however, the couple returned for dessert.  They walked away and before making it to the buffet, she returned to get her purse.  I started to offer to "watch it" while she returned but then decided against it.  I shared that with my husband and then said "she probably would have said 'no thank you.'"

I giggled as I told my husband "If she only knew!"  If she only knew that the "guard" had 30 years experience in law enforcement, if she only knew that my husband also has that experience, if she only knew that her purse would have been in the most guarded hands of an individual with a great sense of duty...if she only knew. 

There's another part to that...if she only believed.  If she only believed that she could trust us, if she only believed that we would guard her purse and not walk away with it if she only believed, she would not have had to carry it along with her plate. 

Isn't that just how we are with God?  We want to give him a situation so that he can take care of it but we find it hard to do.  We want absolute certainty that God can handle it.  In the past, I have found myself saying "If God only knew just how important this is to me."  I might also say that I would "give it to God" not really "believing" that he could take care of it like I can.

So no more "If she only knew." We do know...now it's a matter of believing!

Believe me when I say that I am the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.  I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And  I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.  John 14:11-13