How do I Trust?

Question:



You hear people and pastors all the time saying "just lay your troubles at jesus' feet" well i don't know how to do this. I don't know how to just hand over all my worries and cares to him because it feels like his arms are not out to take them. Obviously i cannot do it physically, and i don't know how.



Answer:



You have to remind yourself that you can’t judge your walk based on your feelings. God’s Word says that our hearts are deceitful, and can be deceived. Our feelings are not an honest gauge on how we are doing before the Lord. So if our hearts are not the correct judge of our walk, then we have to focus on what is. For that we look to God’s Word and find that our walk is strengthened in knowing Him, and we access that by faith. If you look to your feelings you will never feel better, or you will have a good day and think your problems are solved and then crash a couple days later.



You have to take your walk with the Lord one day at a time. God shows us in His Word the end result and the aim for our purpose in this life. His goal is to make us more like Christ, and our responsibility is to learn to focus on Him one day at a time. That means we need to learn how to walk with Him based on how He has shown us to through His Word. We need to hand our troubles to Him knowing He is right there. We do this when we feel ourselves being burdened. When we give them to them we walk away from them, and we keep doing this until it becomes instinctive to hand them over to Him. As you seek Him and He shows you truths to apply, follow Him one step at a time. That is the key to your walk. It’s learning to be faithful to Him in your daily decisions and He will mold you into the person He wants you to be.


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