2024.04.07 God Among the Ruins
God Among the Ruins
Week 2 – Trust God
2024.04.07
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD…
Proverbs 3:5-7
We don’t see what God sees.
Our understanding is just too limited for God.
“How can a mere finite human be sure that infinite wisdom would not tolerate certain short-range evils in order for more long-range good that we cannot foresee?” [Kreeft] asked.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good,
Genesis 50:20
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
This is what the LORD says: When seventy years are completed for Babylon…
Jeremiah 29:10
This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters;…Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.””
Jeremiah 29:4-7
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore….
Jeremiah 29:11-14
Not their plan, but God’s plan.
God has said, ‘Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.’
Hebrews 13:5
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 20:7
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
John 14:1
If I could only fly
I’d go up and look down from the sky
So I could see the bigger picture
And Lord if I could sit with You
At Your feet for an hour or two
I’m sure I’d ask too many questions – Steven Curtis Chapman
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully…
1 Corinthians 13:12
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
John 14:1
God has said, ‘Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.’
Hebrews 13:5
Trust God, Trust God.