Trust And Obey

We should trust and obey when it comes to God, but it is much more difficult when it comes to our government. We hear two sides of everything and I guess it’s up to us to figure out who or what is right. However, God is always right and He is in control. If we put all our trust in Him everything will turn out okay.

It isn’t always true when it comes to our children though is it? We have been given free will and our kids don’t always know which is right and which is wrong, do they? I will tell you a time when I didn’t trust. My daughter had just finished high school and was attending our community college. At the same time, she was working at a fast food place to help out financially and had to close the place after midnight. She met several boys at that late hour and I didn’t approve of them. I noticed that she was getting very tired and thought it was because she was spending to much time with those boys.

In my job as a Parish Worker, I called on all of the sick and shut-in people. One day I was calling on an old couple that had many serious complications. They kept talking about how wonderful JoAnne was. She had cleaned the apartment completely, even to do some painting in one of the rooms. I heard the name JoAnne but had never connected it until I asked. “Why it was your daughter that did all this work. She worked all week. Didn’t you know?” the lady asked.

No, I didn’t. I had thought she was spending too much time with those boys. I hurried to her room where she was lying down to apologize. This happened many years ago but it still burns within me. Why didn’t I trust my daughter?

Well, we don’t trust and obey God very well either, do we? If we trusted Him that our country will be okay because He is in control, and if we trusted and obeyed him with our lives, we would be okay too. Let’s try a little harder to do what that little song says: We must trust and obey.