Overcoming with Trust

Regardless of the fact that we might already know it, very often we forget that the obstacles and the trials in our lives are allowed by God. If we lose focus in knowing that our heavenly Father is truly in control, then we lose our faith and we are just as hopeless as the ones who do not know the Lord. If others can look at us and see an evident trust in our Father above, then they too will desire to be children of the Almighty.

An earthly father will not suffer his child to go into peril, but he will allow his child to experience just enough pain in order to become more resistant to the harsh realities of life; even more so, our heavenly Father would not let us pass though trials that are greater than our power to overcome them.

And when the world sees the enthusiasm of trust in the midst of our trials, they will admire and ask how is it that we are able to overcome such great obstacles when others fail to do so: our trust, our faith is our testimony as children of the most High.

Have faith in the Lord, and you will witness that even the greatest obstacles can be overcome through Him.

If You Lost your Life...

In life there are many problems that we come to face, yet we are not to be discouraged by them. All we have to do is to trust on Jesus to see us through the tough times, and many times we need to prove our trust in Him by taking the first steps on the water like Peter did, and even so much prove it that we even be as Jesus exemplified in John 11, thanking our heavenly Father for answering our prayers even before we see any results.


For us, life and its obstacles are a great unknown, but our Savior is out on the water calling us. At first it is a very hard thing to let Him take control of your life and to trust Him with it. For a person that has just come out of the dark into the light, it is a great disturbance and discomfort to his eye, but the the longer he stays in the light, the more he sees the beauty and the glory of the light that surrounds him.


It is the same way for one to give up his life and his plans for Christ. At first it may be scary, especially if there are many plans for the future, and it is a disturbing and uncomforting thought to give it all away to Christ, but the more Christ has control of your life, the more you came to see the beauty and the goodness that comes out of sacrificing oneself for Him who sacrificed himself for you.


Since life is full of storms on the sea, it would be much, much safer to be with the One who can walk on water  rather than be in the ship that is batter by the storm and is sinkable. "Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it" [Luke 17:33]