Explore the trust of Christ Jesus that you can experience. Faith, belief, and trust are the same words in Greek.
This says it all.
For years after my born-again experience, I kept thinking there must be some effort that God was expecting from me. There is an old Christian song with a line that says, “Wondrous things the Lord can do with just a little help from you.” For some reason, I had accepted that saying as being true. I didn’t believe that Jesus meant what He said in…
John 15:5: “…for without me you can do nothing.”
Nor was I trusting in what Paul wrote in Philippians 2:13, “For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”
One day, reading a book about our walk of grace hit me like a bolt out of the blue when I saw a picture of two trees, one called the ‘Trusting Tree’ and the other called the ‘Trying Tree.’ God never asked us to try to be good or to try to be like Him. When Jesus was asked what we should do to work the works of God, He said,
“This is the work of God, that you trust Him whom He has sent.” (John 6:29 emphasis mine)
