Why Trusting God Causes You to React More With Love

We’ve all heard it before: Trust the Lord.

And for good reason! It leads to growth in your faith, healing, perseverance during trials, and so much more. But what if I told you those weren’t the only benefits of learning to lean on the Lord and in His understanding?

Proverbs 3:5-6 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

The Lord makes a promise to us through scripture that if we learn to trust Him as our Heavenly Father, Savior, Guider, Provider, Daily Bread etc. that He will direct our steps. The wonderful thing about this promise is it’s relevance not just one aspect of our lives, but every aspect. This promise to direct our steps an make our paths strait when we lean on Him is for our spiritual, mental, physical, financial, relational, and covenantal. We have the assurance that when we in any area of our life feel as if we lack the wisdom and ability to move forward into love and peace, the Lord will direct us and lovingly correct out steps.
In otherwards, He will help us to walk on a path of physical narrowness (or righteousness) in every area of life. Including how we love those around us, and ourselves.

When we learn to trust God and release control, fear, and bitterness, consequently the overflow of our hearts will naturally change and cause us to see and treat the people around us with love and through the lense of our Savior.

Matthew 22:36-40

 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

It isn’t an accident that the first command is to love God, followed by loving our neighbor as ourselves. Scripture makes it clear that when we love God, how we live begins to align with His heart. The problem is that many believers find it difficult to love God because they don’t trust Him.

“Love” was modeled very differently for most, and for all imperfectly, seeing as humans are flesh and prone to sin. Whether that be through the church, a family member, or a spouse, even the most God-fearing Christians can never fully love with the perfection of God Himself. As humans, we can lazily throw around the word love and yet our actions say something different. God, however, never contradicts Himself. His word never comes back void, and His love is without flaw. This struggle to trust and therefor love God fully, as common as it is, causes a believer to struggle to receive the fullness of God’s peace and provisions; which in turn makes it easy for someone to instead of reacting with the attributes of love (patience, kindness, does not envy or boast etc.…) to alternatively react with the fruits of the principalities that operate within Satan’s kingdom.

Where patience should rule…irritability and being easily provoked might take over.
Where peace should rule, discourse and chaos might ensue...

Where joy and kindness, self-control, and the other attributes of love should reign in our relationships…fear, guilt, self-preservation/ protection, bitterness, lying, and more can move in when we don’t trust and lean on the Lord to guide us. These counterfeit reactions we have can stem from the hurt, pain, and desire to control our circumstances. All of these are driven by yet an even more central problem residing in the human heart.

Fear.

Whether it’s fear of the future, losing control, being hurt, living in poverty, your children repeating the same sin as you, your spouse not understanding or accepting you etc. When we don’t trust in God’s plan, His love, His redemption, how He sees those around us, His promises; we will find it exceedingly more difficult and even sometimes impossible to react with love. So, how can we begin to love and trust God more and in turn, walk in love with those around us?

By meditating on scripture, studying God’s word, praising the Lord, doing deliverance, repenting, forgiving, and choosing to step away from old sin patterns. It is a holy process of sanctification and a renewing of our minds that moves us forward into learning to trust God. One we are all walking out daily.

Biblical resources are a key step in learning more about the Lord, as well as receiving Deliverance and freedom to be able to walk in peace and healing. If you’re wanting to react and respond more with love and learn more about what love is and isn’t, then watch or listen to our teaching "Love-If It's Not Love What Is It?" on our website or app today!

 And remember…God isn’t just worthy of your trust because someone at church said so. He’s worthy of your trust because He is perfect. His love is unlike mans. You don’t need to be afraid of Him withdrawing, turning a blind eye, becoming provoked, holding you in contempt, betraying you, or abandoning you. He is your daily bread, your provision, your security, your redeemer, your creator.

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