14 - PEACE/TRUST LINK - How to Get it.

Where did the strength and courage to acknowledge those painful, frightening feelings come from? They endeared him to people and increased his credibility, but where did they come from? He told me it was not about bravery; it was about trust. He confessed that the first time he trusted Jesus to direct his steps, inhabit in his circumstances, and mold his heart, it took courage, but now that he had done it so many times, confidence had replaced the need for courage.

 He had come to trust that God had a plan in spit of the circumstances, even in spite of cancer– a plan that was beyond time and beyond imagination, and that trust had become unshakeable. And it showed! Peace dwelt in his life.

We met each week. I was the doctor who lay on my hands, but he was the healer who touched my heart and opened my eyes.  He tutored me with his life and only when I asked questions, he did he need words.

TRUST EXPERIMENTS

 "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13 NIV

“Trust building must first take place with the little things in the good times if you expect to have it for the big things in the bad times.” unknown

For Wendell running like the wind was all about trusting Jesus. That is the foremost thing that sets the Windrunners apart, but there is more to it than it would seem at first: believing Jesus is trustworthy is not enough; a desire to trust Him is not enough; even a decision to trust him is not enough. They are all essential, but not enough. The kind of trust Wendell was talking about is possible for anyone, but it takes practice and it is incremental. It takes time to build and it requires accumulating personal evidence that can only happen through a series of trust experiments.