“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. John 14:1-3 NLT
While speaking of faith, I have often asked the question, “Why is it so easy for people to trust God about the afterlife, but it is so difficult for the same people to have faith about finance, marriage and other areas of this life?” Well, I won’t be asking that question any longer. It has suddenly occurred to me that we really trust God when we are no longer capable of controlling the situation. And death removes our ability to alter the circumstance by our own strength.
I think that when we are at the end of our proverbial rope is when we are free to trust God fully. When we realize that we can’t fix it, duct tape it or run from it, we are able to hear God’s voice, able to follow His instructions and able to believe His word. And death offers all of us that same opportunity to trust God. In death we have no strength or duct tape, only an opportunity to believe or deny the name of Christ.
I choose to believe the guy that has been there, done that and lives to tell the tale. He says that he is preparing a place and that he will come back to get us. Knowing that He will be there makes me fear a bit less.
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