Trusting Jesus – An Illustration

A tight rope walker stretches his wire between two very tall skyscrapers in New York City. You watch him push a wheelbarrow across and back five times with no trouble. He asks if you think he can do it again. You respond “yes, of course.” He then asks you to get in the wheel barrow. Trust is getting in that wheel barrow.

The following three passages teach we should trust the Lord / Christ / God …

Prov 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

Eph 1:12-13 “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.”

I Tim 4:10 “For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.”

It is not enough just to believe in Jesus; we have to be trust him; we have to be willing to go out on a limb for him. And in addition to trusting Jesus, we have to obey the gospel (II Thess 1:8).

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