{"id":731,"date":"2014-07-27T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2014-07-27T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T07:46:12","slug":"trusting-in-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Trusting in God…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Praying\"<\/a>\u201cIt is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>As I read those words in my morning Bible reading recently, my mind went back many years ago to the time when we HAD put confidence in what people had told us and were badly let down. We were contemplating buying a commercial building with two tenants leasing it. The tenant downstairs seemed reliable enough, but the we had some doubts about the ones upstairs. We asked them how long they were likely to need the lease for, and they said as long as they didn\u2019t expand, there was no likelihood of them moving. So with that assurance, we bought the building.<\/p>\n

For a few months, everything went well, and then the tenants upstairs gave notice that they were moving but would continue paying their rent until the end of their lease in six month\u2019s time. This was a blow that we had hoped we wouldn\u2019t have to face. Once the lease ran out, we were left with only half the income we had budgeted for. As time went by we were unable to lease out the top floor\u2026.people said it was either too big, or there wasn\u2019t enough parking. It was certainly never classed as being too small by any prospective tenant!<\/p>\n

Things were not easy and we began to wonder if we had made a mistake in \u201cputting our confidence in man \u201c. We had prayed about the proposition before buying it and done our homework as thoroughly as we could, but now the only conclusion we could come to was that we must have made a mistake in buying the place.<\/p>\n

During this time, my morning Bible reading was about the time when the Lord told His disciples to row across the lake, all the time knowing what was going to happen. He knew the storm was going to come and toss them about. Yet He still told them to go. They hadn\u2019t made a mistake in setting off across the lake\u2026.they went at His bidding. He didn\u2019t divert the storm, He allowed things to work out their course. \u00a0He knew He would meet them in their hour of desperate need and calm the storm.<\/p>\n

After reading this story, my mind settled down somewhat. We hadn\u2019t made a mistake after all, the Lord just wanted to teach us that He was in control and would release us from the situation eventually. It didn\u2019t happen overnight but the building did eventually sell and we were released from the situation we were in. How relieved we were and overjoyed at not having to go through this hard time any more!!<\/p>\n

I now know that whatever comes our way, God is always in control. If things are easy, we must give Him thanks, and when things come tough, we are to tighten our belts (figuratively) and still give Him thanks that things are no worse than they are! Above all, we are not to put our confidence in what people tell us, but to always trust in God and what He says in His Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As I read those words in my morning Bible reading recently, my mind went back many years ago to the time when we HAD put confidence in what people had told us and were badly let down. We were contemplating buying a … Continue reading Trusting in God…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-devotional-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-bN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}