In God We Trust

Merry Christmas!

​In this season of Christmas, we continue to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Jesus - someone who can and should be Man of the Year over and over and over again. (Sidenote: Jesus did receive over half a million public nominations for Time magazine’s “Person of the Century” selection in 1999. However, Jesus was ruled ineligible because he didn’t meet the requirement of living during the 20th century.)

Christmas reminds us that God makes good on His promises. Every covenant...every prophet...every promise He put in place over hundreds and hundreds of years to reveal His love for each of us! “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life.” John 3:16 

The story is real. It happened. We celebrate it every year at Christmas. This radical love story for you (for me!) unfolds every liturgical year and across the pages of Scripture.

There are so many reasons to trust God. 

But do I?

I jotted down a title last week: “In God We Trust.” Did I subconsciously read it on a dollar when I paid for something? Maybe. But the bigger reason I jotted down that title recently came from the conviction of trusting I am where I’m supposed to be and that life around me is happening the way it’s supposed to be; I need only trust and pray that I’m doing what I ought rather than wishing that things were different or had different timing. 

There was such peace and relief that came with acknowledging that. I felt a freedom from handing over something I wasn’t in control of anyway and trusting that God would take care of it. There was a reassurance that I was where I needed to be because I allowed God to be where He wanted to be all along - close to me.

I’m right where I’m supposed to be in this moment. To be fair, that is difficult to say in every moment of our lives. The act of trusting God requires us to surrender our own plan or thoughts, and humble ourselves to His will. I plan to practice this more intently and intentionally in the new calendar year. Repetition forms reflex. The more we practice trusting in God, the more rep’s of trust we put in, the more developed our spiritual reflex of trust becomes. 

And trust in God can bring so much peace and freedom from allowing Him to be in control. It spills forth a feeling of belovedness, which quite honestly bears confidence. We can only trust someone that we have a relationship with. May our actions speak louder than words: In God We Trust.