Growth Spurts part 2

2 Cor 11:30 says, "If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness." OK, I am going to expose one of my weakness to you today so that I can truely boast of the work of the Holy Spirit in my life and so that God may be glorified through my weaknesses.

I struggle with trust. I struggle with trusting God and I struggle with trusting others. I have asked the Lord to help strengthen those areas that are weak. In that he has revealed to me as to why I stuggle with trust and areas that are still in need of work. He is always faithful to reveal when we ask.

I am finding that as I am trying to build and maintain unity that God is doing a tremendous growth in me in the area of trust. I am a worker through and through in the kingdom and God has gifted me with the ability to administrate. I love to plan things and I love to "do" things, and I must admit that I like to have them done in a certain way. They don't have to be done "my way". But I like to walk in excellence and I want to make sure that what needs to get done, gets done, and gets done with excellence. Therefore, I like to do them myself because I can trust myself to do the things that need to get done.

When I do things with just God and I (and that has taken a level of trust!), then I have not taken the opportunity to learn how to function as part of a unified body of believers. Working on a project with others causes me to have to trust on a whole new level.

It is not the other person that I have to trust, but I need to trust God at work in them and through them. My ways are not God's ways and if they didn't do their task with excellence, or if they even forgot to do it at all, is not God able to take care of the need? If God wants something done that someone else forgot to do, he is more than able to send someone else to do it or will give you the grace to do it when the time comes (you just have to keep a good attitude!!!).

If I don't trust God at work through others, I will always have to do the work alone. That sure would make me pretty lonely! It also wouldn't allow others to grow, use their gifts, of perhaps even allow their light to shine.

If we want to be a part of a unified body then we will have to give up control and trust God and learn to function as one...even if there are a few glitches along the way. We sure do grow as a body when we learn to trust each other and to trust God.