You can trust him, in truth, he’s the only one you can trust, Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, trinity as unity. Every man woman and child on Earth is fallen and capable of letting you down. Trusting Jesus is a brave act, because in this world, trust is placeable only in the things of this world, and all of them are fallible. For this reason it is also a wise thing to do, a reasonable and logical and intelligent thing to do. He’s the only one you can actually trust to know what is best for you and to act in your interests, and his interests, as one. He’s the only one you can totally trust.
Including one’s own self.
Give Jesus Christ along with every material thing, everything in your past, everything that forms and has formed your entire identity and self, and everything in and of the future, and also, your self confidence.
This world is all about wanting you to have confidence in yourself. Self confidence.
Once you have given your life to Jesus you will not need self confidence. Indeed, you must repeatedly give it to him as it attempts to reassert itself. Faith in Jesus will come to replace confidence in yourself.
The more you trust him, the more you will come to know him, and the more you come to know him the more you will trust him. Trust him with your life and he will not let you down.
What else must we give him?
Our trust.
Our obedience. Our love.
These three grow with every step of the walk with him.
We must give him our fears. And all of our suffering.
“Lord Jesus I give you this suffering, this pain, it’s not much, but it’s all I have.”
He is mighty. The great healer, mighty counselor. When we visit a human counselor they sit us down, they listen, they ask questions and try to prise from us the words to express our suffering. Then the hour is up, and we go away, perhaps feeling a little better for having ‘talked it through’ or perhaps not feeling better at all.
When we go to Christ with our pain and suffering, we are able to give it to him, to place it at the foot of his cross, to give it to him to carry, and he will, he will take it upon himself and carry it for us. Give him your suffering. And he will give you his peace and joy in return. He will give you himself.
For when we give him ourselves, he gives us himself.
This is why we must give him all. Everything. Even and especially that which we do not want to give, which we are ashamed of, which we are proud of or afraid to let go of.
We must give him everything.
Because he wills to give us everything.
And he cannot and will not divide himself to give us only a part of that which he is. He gives all. Has already given all. We must give all to receive all. Else we receive nothing.
And when you do, when we do this, when we give him all our house, he gives us in return all of his house.
His house is a Kingdom, an infinite beautiful beautiful heavenly Kingdom.
And he gives it to us, shares with us, co heirs with him, in exchange for our grubby past and short lived future and ill thoughts and broken hearts.
For our dust and clay and tears he gives us paradise. He gives us himself.
For our death he gives us life eternal. He is the Kingdom of God.
And to think we even hesitated to hand over the keys of our shack in the slum. And whilst we are giving him everything, give him this also.
Our thanks. Our gratitude.
For he has done a mighty thing, and pulled us from the pit and the mire, and from the claw of death.
And saved us as his own into the Kingdom of God.
His life for your life.
Your life for his life.
Give him your heart and soul.
Your mind and body.
Your past and future.
And be free of this world.