{"id":3522,"date":"2010-07-15T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2010-07-15T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T16:29:58","slug":"obeying-by-trusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100715-3522.htm","title":{"rendered":"Obeying by Trusting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
\nto be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When God says “Do”, I find it easy to obey. Sure, I still need to trust, to step forward, to deal with my fears in the doing. But “doing” is easy.<\/p>\n

When God says “Stay”, I find it hard to obey. Here, trusting is the action He wants me to take. It’s unavoidable. It’s terrifying.<\/p>\n

To trust when there’s nothing I should do.<\/p>\n

To trust when there’s nothing I can do.<\/p>\n

To fully place my life in His hands when He isn’t telling me where He’s going–or in that case, that He’s even going somewhere. <\/p>\n

To trust Him in the monotony of a day-to-day, seemingly aimless existence.<\/p>\n

I beg Him for something to do. <\/p>\n

“What am I going to do, Lord?” I cry. <\/p>\n

He answers: “Trust.”<\/p>\n

“Give me something to do–then I can trust. Give me a task, something to keep my mind and hands occupied.”<\/p>\n

“Trust,” He replies.<\/p>\n

And so I travel down one of the most difficult paths of my life: Trusting when there’s no other word to obey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. When God says “Do”, I find it easy to obey. Sure, I still need to trust, to step forward, to deal with my fears in the doing. But “doing” is easy. When God says “Stay”, I find … Read more Obeying by Trusting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}