Trusting God

How long, O LORD?  Will you forget me forever?  How long will you hide your face from me?  How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart?  How long will my enemy triumph over me?  Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.  Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.  But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.  I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me.  Psalm 13

 

 

I met her and her husband at the first church where I served as pastor.  They were wonderful people who loved their new pastor and his family.  They became like grandparents to my children.

 

Kaye had a beautiful, quiet spirit.  She loved God and she loved people.  She committed her life to serving others beginning with those in our little church and going all the way to the people of foreign lands.  Kaye had the heart of a missionary and it showed.  From the streets of Chicago to the villages of Kazakstan, Kaye became the hands and feet of Jesus.

 

But, Kaye died suddenly on Friday.  She was only 60 years old.  And as I consider her death, I have some questions.

 

Why did she have to die when she still had so much life ahead of her?

 

I have no answer to this question.  “But I trust in your unfailing love.”

 

She lived her life serving others.  Why were the years of her ministry cut short?

 

I don’t begin to understand.  “But I trust in your unfailing love.”

 

Why is there now a wonderful man who must live out the rest of his years without the love of his life?

 

I struggle to know what to say.  “But I trust in your unfailing love.”

 

Trusting God.  This is really what it’s all about.  God has made a relationship with Him possible through Jesus.  In this relationship, He helps us learn to walk with Him through both the joys and struggles of life.  Each day is an opportunity to rely upon Him and trust Him more.

 

Trusting God.  It’s getting to know more of Him in order to get a clearer perspective on the world around us.  And it’s learning to hold very loosely to this world and instead to hold very tightly to Him.

 

Trusting God.  It’s coming to the place that we are okay with unanswered questions and are instead content with trusting God.