Keep Trusting

I am still recording quotes that use my word of the year – Trust — in a notebook from time to time.  This has been so meaningful and enlightening for me this year.  Here are some of the latest examples:

In fact, one of the great temptations in the desert was for Jesus to use his power to turn stones into bread and feed the starving.  But he insists on trusting the body of Christ to provide “this day our daily bread.”  [The author goes on to explain that this was seen in a CBS mini-series on the life of Christ]:  The part about the desert temptation entails a starving little girl pleading with Jesus to turn stones into bread and He says to the Tempter, “I will trust my church.” -Shane Claiborne, Irresistible Revolution, pg. 177

God connects salvation with believing, trusting, knowing, remembering.  Yet the salvation is not in our act of believing, trusting, knowing or remembering; it is in the thing or person believed on, trusted, known, remembered.  – Horatio Bonar (Scotland/ 1808-1889), Mosaic Bible, pg. 294

She was trusting that an event would be changed rather than trusting a Person to be her strength and guide…Is it wrong to pray specifically then?  No!  Biblical faith prays for specific concerns and makes specific requests, but it leaves the results to God because it trusts in God’s character…Jesus was not praying out of human expectations (Mark 14:36), but out of deep trust in God’s character and love.  And as a result, he yielded to God’s plan rather than being disappointed that God was not doing things his way.  – Dudley Hall, Grace Works, pg. 98-99

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him.  – Romans 15:13

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; but when one stronger than he attacks him and over comes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil.  Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.  – Luke 11:21-23

Trust me and live and breathe in my love.  – Anita, Missionary in South America, editor Beth Moore, Voices of the Faithful, pg. 334

My dear son, I hope now to go before you:  follow me thus as much as you value your soul, for besides this there shall be found no other way to salvation.  Thus, I will now commend you to the Lord; may he keep you.  I trust the Lord; may he keep you.  – Maeyken Wens, just before being burned at the stake in Antwerp, Oct. b, 1573