Flashlight

As a camper at Camp Cherith of Western New York I heard a lot of messages and devotions on God's Word. The topics varied throughout the years but one common topic was trust. This topic always struck a cord with me. I have trust issues. I've been burned by people and therefore feel the need to protect myself and therefore I don't trust people easily. 

Another big thing at camp was object lessons to really drive the point of the devotion or message home. The most popular object lesson I remember that applied to trust involved a flashlight. Usually messages were given at a campfire in the middle of the woods either after dark or close to it. The speaker would turn on the flashlight and talk about how with a flashlight we can only see so far in the dark. A flashlight only lights up a certain amount of space. We can only see a little bit at a time. Then the speaker would talk about how that is also true in life. Where we are in life we can only see so far into the future. We can't see everything that will happen to us.  However, God can see it all. He sees the whole picture. He shows us little pieces at a time.  We have to trust God and trust that He knows what is ahead for us. We have to trust He knows what's best for us. 

This object lesson has been so fresh in my memory lately. We are in a season of trusting God like never before. He knows exactly what we need. We think we know what we need but we have to trust that He has it under control and knows what is best for us and our family.  Trusting is hard. It's hard to give up control when you don't know what's going to happen. But my God has an amazing track record. He has never let us down. He always provides exactly what we need. He wants to bless us with good things. 

So, for now we are trusting in our God. He's got all of this covered. He knows what we need better than we do. I can't wait to see what he has in store for us.