prayer - trust

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding of things, in all your ways acnowledge Him, and He will direct your path". 

We give no thought to getting on an airplane to go flying across the ocean, because we have simple blind faith in the airplane which we did not build, and the pilot whom we do not know.  Why would we put our trust in the unknown so blindly?  We have seen and heard witness that flight in an airplane works, and can take us a long distance quickly. It is the witness.   We trust that a multiple ton piece of metal will not only go up into the air, but will stay there until by some miracle, it lands. 
     We don't think twice when a doctor tells us to have surgery, or to get a shot, or to take some medicine.  All these things are potentially dangerous or even deadly.  We thank God that 90% of our doctors are doing the right thing, and that 90% of our airplanes go without incident.  Why do we trust so blindly in a doctor whom we know so little about, or in medicine that we may have never before used?  We have both seen and heard witnesses who have told of their positive reaction to the medicine and to the doctor who treated them.  It is the witness that makes us comfortable to use the unknown.
     How important is a witness? It is Important enough to be used throughout the bible and throughout history.  Important enough to be used as testimony in a court or as a part of a convincing ad campaign.  Witnesses, whether good or bad, change lives, give comfort and a feeling of security, create curiousity, bring anticipation and excitement, and win hearts over.  Jesus wants us to trust Him for all things.  We have a testimony.  We can witness.  We can help the lost to be saved and create or enhance trust in an all powerful God through our witness.  We can trust Him.  We should trust Him.  WE MUST TRUST HIM. 
      I would rather trust a doctor who does the right thing 100% of the time.  He is infallible.  His name is Jesus.  He is the one we should trust.  He never fails.  He died for us, so that we could spend eternity with him.
     Heavenly Father help us to let go of the "steering wheel" and trust wholly in you..  Help us to understand that we don't hold the future in our hands, but we stand in the palm of the hand of the one who created the future.  He who is and who was, and who ever shall be.  The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.  In You oh Lord do we place our trust.  You have never let us down.  We may not have understood what was happening in our lives from time to time, but we know that "Your ways are higher than our ways, and Your thoughts are higher than our thought".  Our wisdom is to you, foolishness, for our wisdom did not accomplish the creation of the world or any of the magnificent creatures that are in it.  We trust in you Lord, so we will "lean not unto our own understanding of things, but in all our ways we shall acknowledge you, so that You, oh Lord, will direct our path".  Please comfort us, oh Lord in our time of need and lead us boldly to your throne of grace that we might obtain mercy in our time of need.  Then help us to trust that you will do what you have said you will do for us.  In Jesus name I pray.  Amen.