First and foremost, I
hope everyone had a great Christmas and is excited for the New Year. Todays post is inspired
by Fred Hammonds new song I Will Trust. Now let me insert here how much this song GOES IN!!! Vocally, lyrically, musically, everything is on point – well, at
least I think so. With that being said, let me tell y’all a funny story.
About 2 years ago, I
vividly remember laying on my bed reading a book (sorry I forgot the title and
author :/. I was basically cajoled into reading that book so yea lol) and one
chapter of the book was talking about how every Christian will go through a
period in their life which she (the author) calls the “desert period” where
everything in your life seems very dry and difficult to survive in. When all
the promises of God seem to be in the opposite direction of where your life
looks like its heading. As she kept on speaking about how difficult that season
was for her and how it was hard to trust God and keep her faith alive and how
it would be basically tough for every Christian, I foolishly told myself “I
don’t think I will doubt God during my desert season. If He has promised me
something, He will do it; like come on, its not hard to do it. I will be totally
fine”. Fast-forward two years, and I’m over hear failing miserably in my desert
period! Haha! I honestly laugh so hard when I remember those childish words I
said to my self while reading that book. I realized that when I said those
words to myself, I thought the desert period would last a couple days maximum a couple weeks, so excuse my naïve thinking and cut me
some slack lol. I didn’t know any better.
Late summer of 2013 when
I moved from Alexandria to Herndon was when my desert period started. I
will admit, I was a complete disaster. I can literally count all the times I
totally failed in trusting God and panicked every single time something would
come up. But all the while, God remained faithful and came through for me. It wasn’t
until October/November of this past year that I actually made progress and
learned what it really meant and felt to completely trust God. Yup! It took me
over a year to make progress and I still have a mighty long way to go. See God
had to grab my attention and strip certain things from me and allow certain
situations to come my way to teach me and show me to trust in Him and not
anything or anyone else.
In the afore mentioned
song, the chorus says “I will trust in the name of The Lord. Lord I will trust
in You for I know You will see me through”. I encourage you all to give the
song a listen and pay attention to the words and it might just end up being
your prayer song for the next couple of weeks. This song and its words really
keep me going through this season in my life. Some of you may know that I just
lost my dad on November 24th 2014 and it has not been easy. Right
now what is toughest is not his loss because God has given me closure on that,
but rather, the hearts of family and friends that are being revealed. It’s
shocking! I’ve come to realize there is another synonym for enemy – family. Its
really sad how pitiful humans are and I thank God always for having mercy on us
and being patient with our human nature. When people you thought would be there
with you and for you act completely opposite, you have no option but to trust
in God even though He’s supposed to be our first and only option anyways.
Trusting in the name of
The Lord for me means trusting in the nature of God. When Moses was interacting
with the burning bush, He asked God “If I
go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to
you’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God
said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites:
‘I AM has sent me to you.’” [Exodus 3:13-14] Meaning God is His name! What is God’s name?
Lord, Yaweh, Jehovah, El Shaddai, and so on! So if you trust in the name of The
Lord, you trust in His very being because He is who His name says He is.
As we are in a New Year,
I encourage us all to trust in the name of the Lord. He is super faithful and
does not let down. I’m so thankful that God is nothing like us humans because
that would be a disaster. Never put your trust in humans. They will let you down
BIG TIME! Seriously, they will. God is who has called you. “Faithful is the one who has called you and He will do it” [1
Thessalonians 5:24]
Have a fruitful 2015.
Here's a link to the youtube video of the song:
XOXO,
Jennifer Darlington
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