I’m sorry, but when I wrote the title in this thing, I was flashing back to the first Batman movie like back in the 80’s, when the Joker’s riding that big float in the parade at the end of the movie right before they release the gas, and Prince’s song was playing in the background…”Trust, who do ya?”
Okay, that was a total butterfly…
I’ve been reading through John in the mornings, and I had an “ah-hah” moment this morning. Like, you know how you’ll read something that you’ve read over and over and over since you were a kid, and then one day the Spirit just reaches out of the page and slaps you right in the face, and you get something out of it that you’ve never gotten before? Well, I had an “ah-hah” moment this morning, and so I had to share it tonight.
We’ve all read the verse over and over and over, and probably even memorized it. Jesus was saying, “Your heart must not be troubled. Beleive in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you” (John 14:1,2, HCSB). Great verse. There’s a lot in there. What I’ve always gotten out of that verse is that we shouldn’t stress over stuff in this life, because He’s coming back for us.
But I read that this morning, and a different set of words literally just jumped off the page at me. “…if not, I would have told you.” I can almost hear Jesus saying, “Guys, if wouldn’t tell you this if it weren’t true.”
But when I read that this morning, and I stopped, and re-read it like 3 times, the Spirit just whispered in my ear, “You can trust Me!” And that sounds simple, but think about it. I get stressed sometimes. I’m a full time grad student, and I have term papers coming out of…well, let’s just say I’ve got a lot of them right now. Time is an issue. Money is an issue. Friendships can be an issue. And I get stressed. I get stressed because I stop realizing that God will handle it. “You can trust Me.” In fact, here’s how The Message paraphrases the 1st part of that passage: “Don’t let this throw you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me.”
He can handle whatever it is that I’m stressed about. I just need to trust Him to do it.
Trust, who do ya?
If you listen really close, I think you’ll hear Him whispering in your ear.
“You can trust Me.”