Psalm 3:3-4

“But you are a shield around me, O Lord; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head. To the LORD I cry aloud, and he answers me from his holy hill.” Psalm 3:3-4

This is probably one of my favorite verses ever. I just love it. “But you are a shield around, O Lord:” Alright, think about that for a minute. God, who, compared to us is so big and so so mighty. Is a shield around us. Do you realize how amazing that is? What can happen to us if we let God be our shield and our strength? Nothing. No matter how hard we try to fix problems in our lives on our own, it rarely ever works. Ever. Like I somewhat mentioned in the last post. If God wants something out of our lives, he’s going to remove it. And he doesn’t want us to want it back. He wants us to trust that he has better things in store for us. A lot of the time we don’t see problematic things in our life because we don’t want to. Does that make sense? Like, say you have a person in your life who has maybe hurt you a lot and puts you down a lot but you’re really close friends with this person so you don’t want to walk out of their life and you definitely don’t want them walking out of yours. So you just try to look past everything and make things better on your own. Thinking that you can. Don’t feel like you messed up if you’re reading this and saying that that’s you. Cause I’m pretty sure we’ve all been there at some point in our lives. But it’s those kind of things that hurt us when God starts to take it away. Because he wants us to realize what this person or thing is doing to us and doing to our lives. If God wants to take something, let him have it. Guaranteed  he has something better for us and our lives. Maybe not right away. Like, don’t expect God to take something away and automatically put something great in it’s place. God does stuff on his own time. He’s got a whole plan and he knows what he’s doing.

I don’t know if this is switching gears here but I really want to talk about this.

Trust. [truhst] –noun-  reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.

That’s a big word. That’s a word that I know scares a lot of us. And I know is hard for quite a few of us. Maybe you’ve gone through times in your life where you really trusted someone with a lot of personal things or just a lot in general. You trusted them to always be there for you. But then they broke that trust. That breaks you, too. Even if we don’t realize it right away we automatically go into this mind set that every person we get close to is going to do the same thing. It’s almost like you start to be afraid to get close with anyone. I really want to tell you guys that, that mind set that invades you when something like that happens, is a lie. Not everyone is going to do that same thing to you. The way I think of it is, Before we trust others we need to trust God. Because when it’s all said and done that is the most important thing. Trust in God is something we need. It’s such a cliché thing, but it’s so true. Everyone is always saying “well trust God, and everything will work out.” And usually we just blow that off cause we hear it all the time, and we’re like “well I know that, but-.” There are no buts. Trust God. If anyone. Pick him. Because the world is going to let us down a lot. People in the world are going to let us down. But God never will. I understand that sometimes we feel like he’s letting us down because what he wants isn’t usually what we want or what we expect. That’s where trust comes in. Trust that he knows what he is doing. Trust that he never ever will leave your side even if everyone else does. Trust that he loves you unconditionally. He died to save your life. That’s amazing. Trust that when he takes stuff out of our life it is for our good. And that you will be thanking him in the long run. God is going to guide you. I’m sure all of us can say that something’s have happened and we really just do not understand at all why God made us go through that. Why he had that happen to us if it affects us in a bad way. Sometimes going through those types of things helps us realize just how much more we need God. And how much more we need to be filling our hearts and our minds with him and not things of this world. Like, go after him guys. Don’t hold back. Don’t just settle for how things are for you now. Want more of him in your life and your heart. Search for him and go after him with your whole heart. Don’t be afraid to trust him, guys. He loves you way more than any one in the world ever will. And he will not let you down. I can’t stress that enough.

Well, I feel like I got very off subject today. Haha. But I feel like this was a successful post! And I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you all are having a great day today (: Love you guys.