Trust: Go & Show
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Trust is over-used in our pop, self-help era. We have developed ropes courses, seminars, equipped counselors, life-coaches, and other personalities to navigate the deep and uncharted undercurrents of the most misunderstood element of the human experience.
So when I see bumper stickers, bookmarks and motivational sermons about “Trusting God” I become perturbed by the simplification of one of God’s most foundational promises. God has revealed himself and his nature through entrusted disclosure to the human conscience and experience. Theologians call this experience “inspiration”. When we removed the integrity or “trust” from an inspirational source it quickly is demoted to prejudice. The collection of these entrusted revelations of God’s nature have been organized many ways, the most consistent of which is by promises God has made to his people in scripture. We have the Pentateuch attributed to Moses as an account of the foundational introductions between God and humanity from Creation to the Time of Moses’ transition of power of God’s people to Joshua.
Trust is a fundamental mechinism of creative order. It is the strings that connects free-willing beings together. This is how God chose to reconnect with us.
The Old Testament is a covenant, a system of trusts that demonstrates how God began to reconnect with humanity- with a rhythm of entrusted direction and our obediant response.
God had chose to reconnect to his creation through a system of trust. God chose relationships, not war, not force, not global domination. God chose a strategy of promise, to reclaim what was lost to him. He began by asking a middle aged man to leave the most advanced civilization on earth. Genesis 12 records it this way, ” Go and I Will Show You”.
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