It all began with a man. Not the first man of God’s creation, but the first man in God’s own starting point in an elaborate plan to bring His children back to Him.

God needed one who would believe in His plan. And He found what He needed in the heart of a man named Abraham. God needed Abraham to trust Him as He unfolded the most brilliant blueprint heaven has even witnessed. Abraham needed to set aside His personal agenda and trust the Creator of the heavens and the earth with the details.

Abraham needed to be patient relinquishing control to the One who controls all time and eternity.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, my God, my Savior. I trust you all day long.
Psalm 25:5

But Abraham and his wife Sarah had a most difficult time doing just that and, in attempting to take matters in their own hands, muddled up God’s perfect plan before the ink had even dried upon the graph paper. Abraham had unmet expectations and played a dangerous game with the hearts and emotions of others by putting his trust in himself and not God.

Trust often requires more of ourselves than we’re willing to give in our crippled human frailty. To trust is to relinquish control allowing that which we hold or covet closely to our chest go for the promise of something greater.

We’ve all been let down by something or someone we put our trust into, and we’ve all felt the singe upon our soul when that which we trusted didn’t fulfill our expectations.

But expectations can be crushing and trust itself treated like a game of roulette. We often set ourselves up for failure not realizing the dangerous game we’re playing with not only ourselves but the emotions of others.

Because this is the human way. And sin is the unforeseen flaw in our carefully crafted plans. And in His sovereignty perhaps He allows us to fall this way so that there exists nothing or no one that can be trusted like He can be trusted.

But the beauty of this story is that God already knew what would come of Abrahams faulty logic and anxious spirit. Let us remember that God knew Abrahams heart understanding that which motivated him to take matters into his own hands gaining the illusion of control. Though Abraham and Sarah sinned, God still fulfilled promise to Abraham birthing a great nation from his name.

God is not required to prove Himself to us for He is God, but what an incredible act of love that He chooses to prove to us that He can and will be trusted to fulfill His promises!

No matter how crippled our humanity, fragile our humility, or faulty our logic, there exists nothing that can separate us from God and the plan He hold for our life when we put our trust in Christ.

Father, though sin holds me back from trusting in your perfect timing and plan, I thank you for forgiving my sin and giving me another chance to trust in you. In Jesus name, amen.