"Your Trust In Me Has Made You Whole"

Hey, Y'all,

Today's RST is a response from Bud (thanks!) to the recent "God Is God" quote of Yancey's:

The only way in which God could reveal the truth about Himself was to come in the personage of Jesus Christ. That is to say the only way He could set and keep us right was to reveal the truth about Himself. And what a beautiful revelation that was! One way it was made manifest was by His healing/saving of the sick. Throughout His ministry Jesus would state, "Thy faith hath made thee whole." The Greek for faith is "pistis." Dr. Maxwell states pistis can also be translated "trust." So whenever one reads "your faith" one could read "your trust" has made you whole. Trust God to heal the damage sin does, while asking for a heart transplant [I really like that!]. One who has been thus healed and possesses a new heart will also possess newly fine-tuned hearing: a willingness to listen, because in the earth made new, we'll have the opportunity to hear the truth presented and demonstrated more clearly than ever before.

Reminded me of a few passages:

Psalm 20:7---"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God."

Jeremiah 29:11-13---"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

Also sounds like Matthew 7:7-11---"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

"Trust God to heal the damage sin does, while asking for a heart transplant"--really enjoyed that one. So there it is--trust is the key. But think about it for a second: some people you would trust with your life; how much do you trust someone you don't know?

You've been prayed for today...