"TRUST IN HIM!"

John 14:1-11            (ESV)
"1 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe (TRUST) in God; believe (TRUST) also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
4 And you know the way to where I am going."
5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."
8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
11 Believe (TRUST) me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe (TRUST) on account of the works themselves."


Does your heart ever get troubled?  Do you ever find yourself not knowing which direction you should go?  JESUS addressed this problem in the scripture above.  HE instructed us many times to TRUST (believe) in HIM.

In John 4:24 JESUS says "GOD is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."  In John 14:11 JESUS says "I am in the Father and the Father is in me".  In John 17:23 JESUS prays to The FATHER "I (JESUS) in them (believers) and you (FATHER) in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them (believers) even as you loved me."

If GOD and JESUS are one (John 10:30) and GOD loves us even as HE loved JESUS, why should my heart be troubled?  Fear and doubt are tools from the enemy and he uses these tools with great effectiveness.  If the enemy can consume my mind with doubts of GOD working things out, and fear that GOD is not able to work things out for my good (Romans 8:28), I will constantly live in defeat!

My prayer is that I will remember, not what I have done, but what CHRIST has done for me, and live in the victory only HE can bring!   Is JESUS who HE said HE was?  Or is the devil correct that JESUS is a fraud?  Death, hell, and the grave have been defeated.  I will "TRUST" in JESUS and rest in HIM!