homeschooled by GOD – Lesson Two: Trust Me
Lessons Learned in the Classroom of Life
new YEAR, new YOU
January 5th, 2022
Psalm 40:1-3, ‘I waited and waited, and waited some more, for God. At last, He looked; finally, He listened. He lifted me out of the ditch (the slimy pit), pulled me from deep mud. He stood me on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn’t slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God.’
LESSON Two: Trust Me
Nearly three years ago was when I first entered my personal classroom to be homeschooled. My Instructor was and still is God. He has been willing to stick it out with me, to see me through my courses, no matter how difficult they may be, and He has promised that someday, if I am in it to win it, I will graduate with an everlasting degree.
The Lord met me in a very personal way in a motel room in Amarillo, Texas. I was clinging to a frayed end of a rope, and feeling my fingertips slip, knowing any moment I might no longer be able to hang on. I had been a Christian since I was four years old, but I had never taken the Lord seriously, at His Word, and while He passionately pursued me, I played games with Him and with my life, much like a sporting event. I wasn’t interested in His lessons, but the expense of the education I was going after would eventually cost everything.
So, as I slid from the unraveling edges of my life, coming undone, unhinged, wrecked, He spoke to me, and I finally gave Him my attention. He promised me He would rescue me from out of the pit I found myself buried in (it was miry and mucky and had sucked me in), that He would set me on a high place (I pictured a secretive ledge high up, peering down on all I had been trying to avoid and hide from), and He would put a new song (innovative, repairing words) in my mouth. But He gave me instructions. He told me, in order for Him to fulfill His promise to me for deliverance, I would have to complete my assignment. He told me I had to trust Him, be obedient and let go.
My first assignment: Trust? I hadn’t trusted many in my life. Or whom I had trusted, the results hadn’t always been very…trustworthy. Part of it also I realize now was the err of the communication. What we think we are trusting someone for, and what someone is wishing we would trust them for, are not always the same definition, right?
I suddenly found myself in a personal classroom, staring at a blackboard I wasn’t familiar with, and what’s more, didn’t want to see. Webster says trust is ‘confident expectation’. I had to trust Someone I could not see to confidently work out something that was required for me to move forward.
Proverbs 3:5-6, ‘Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the One Who will keep you on track. (MSG)’ The NIV says, ‘…in all your ways, submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.’
