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What changes are you going to make?

Last year, I came across a blog called “Dandelion Seeds” by Amy Verlennich. I believe I blogged about her Create in Me a Clean Heart Devotional and Colossal Clutter Cleanup. Anyhow, Amy recently posted on Facebook that she’s started a group, and so it’s FINALLY time for me to start the devotional with many others on Facebook. You can go here if you’d like more information and to join us.

There’s a devotion and Bible verse to meditate on each week for the whole year. This week’s verse is:

Trust in the Lord with all  your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV

Trust – that’s a big concept for such a small word. It’s only five letters, but there’s so much wrapped up in those letters.  The word “trust” is H982 in Strong’s Concordance:  A primitive root; properly to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as H2620); figuratively to trust, be confident or sure: – be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.

Webster’s 1828 Dictionary lists the definition as:

1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.

He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Prov 29.

2. He or that which is the ground of confidence.

O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Psa 71.

3. Charge received in confidence.

Reward them well, if they observe their trust.

4. That which is committed to one’s care. Never violate a sacred trust.

5. Confident opinion of any event.

His trust was with th’ Eternal to be deem’d

Equal in strength.

6. Credit given without examination; as, to take opinions on trust.

7. Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied; as, to take or purchase goods on trust.

8. Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Every man’s talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable.

9. Confidence; special reliance on supposed honesty.

10. State of him to whom something is entrusted.

I serve him truly, that will put me in trust.

11. Care; management. 1 Tim 6.

12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another; an estate held for the use of another.

TRUST, v.t. To place confidence in; to rely on. We cannot trust those who have deceived us.

He that trusts every one without reserve, will at last be deceived.

1. To believe; to credit.

Trust me, you look well.

2. To commit to the care of, in confidence. Trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns.

3. To venture confidently.

Fool’d by thee, to trust thee from my side.

4. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. The merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods to the value of millions.

It is happier to be sometimes cheated, than not to trust.

TRUST, v.i. To be confident of something present or future.

I trust to come to you, and speak face to face. 2 John 12.

We trust we have a good conscience. Heb 13.

1. To be credulous; to be won to confidence.

Well, you may fear too far–

Safer than trust too far.

To trust in, to confide in; to place confidence in; to rely on; a use frequent in the Scriptures.

Trust in the Lord, and do good. Psa 37.

They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images. Isa 42.

To trust to, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on.

The men of Israel–trusted to the liars in wait. Judg 20.

As a follower of Jesus the Messiah, I should have complete confidence in the Father. He has my best interest at heart at all times, even though it may not always seem like it.  Despite the times that I’m unsure about what the future holds, I know that ultimately His desire for me is good. I can know, without a doubt, that anything He allows will help change me into the type of follower He desires.

Since I have always been an independent person, it’s been difficult to always trust God even though I KNOW He knows better than me. I need to turn to Him whenever I have questions rather than leaning on the things I think I know about a situation. He does know the end from the beginning, so why should I doubt Him?

This week I’ll be thinking and meditating about these two verses. There’s so much to learn about myself, my relationship with the Father, and with others. It should be an interesting week. Do you want to come along for the journey? I could use the company.