Trust The Promise

As human beings we tend to worry, go into panic mode or stress over every little thing. I thought for awhile it's just my generation that does this because we are a weak generation. Money, dead end relationships and pleasing others are our focus. This past week I worked 130 hours, why, I really don't know, I figured let me stack more money before school starts. Well working so much made me too tired to go and worship at Sunday service, I was too tired to do anything, so my daily bible reading got pushed to the back burner, I missed bible study and I love bible study and well you get what I'm trying to say. I finally stopped and said what am I doing, why am I working so hard, it couldn't be for my needs because God promised to supply all of my needs, so what I had to be working so hard for was my wants. I realized I ignored Gods promise to me and did what I wanted to do or what satisfied me. I decided to take a day and pray and read my bible. I didn't know what book I wanted to read, finally the spirit led me to the book of Genesis. Well talk about people doing things their own way geeezzzz. Who struck me most was Abraham. God gave Abraham a promise: Genesis 12:1-3 KJV [1] Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: [2] And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: [3] And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Now here is the promise by the time you get to the middle of chapter 12 Abraham, loses faith and uses deceit because he feared that he was going to be killed for his wife Sarah. I was reading my bible puzzled. Then later God tells Abraham he will protect him and makes his rewards great, but instead of Abraham being satisfied with that he goes and says to The Lord, Genesis 15:2-3 KJV [2] … what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? [3] And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. … As to say your protection and rewards are well and good but it's not enough I want a baby. God promises him a child and not only does he not wait for the promise him and Sarah takes matters into their own hands and Abraham has Ishmael with Hagar. So at this moment I threw my hands up because enough was enough. The best part is through all of that God kept his promise, God remained faithful and Gods love never wavered. There is a promise for each and everyone be of us if we trust God to do what he said he would do. Trusting him doesn't mean tampering with the promise, it doesn't mean he needs your two cent, it doesn't mean he needs a push from you, it means be still and know that he is God. God gave me a promise about the middle of last year and even though I had my moments where I grew inpatient I had to step back and let God be God. Most of us are self destructive anyway why not let God handle your life. I say this to say, God knows the plans he has for you and if you just let him do the work what a great plan it would be. You've tried it on your own for how long? Try God, his promise remains the same today, yesterday and forever. Be blessed my brothers and sisters.