Quiet Saturday. It's nice to be home after such a busy week.
After I got home last night, I had an important realization. Lately, it seems like it's been a struggle for me to trust God as I ought to be. I realized that I had been too willing to not trust Him; you could even say too eager to not trust Him.
I've been asking The Lord in prayer to give me a more humble heart. That means dealing with sin, confessing and turning from it, trusting in God's forgiveness and His eagerness to forgive. Jesus Himself illustrates this in the parable of the prodigal son. For me, I've been seeing a lot of rotten attitudes that rise to the surface, seemingly out of nowhere. My dad affirmed this in his own life, when he could see some of the same bad attitudes his father had, after he and Mom first got married.
These sins can seem so wearying since we don't seem to understand why they're even there, though they are the products of our sinful hearts. It's embarrassing and disheartening to see these sins in our own lives. That's why it's so important to take these things to God. He knows they're in our hearts, He shows them to us so that we may confess and turn from them.
If you take away anything from this, it's to trust not only to trust in God's forgiveness, but true in His eagerness to forgive. Lord knows I need to take this to heart as much as anyone else.
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