Today during my devotion I read an analogy about trusting God. The author compared our need to trust God in life to walking through a minefield. If someone knew where all the mines were hidden and was willing to guide us step by step through the mine field we would follow their every command without question. Step here to live, don't step there or you will die. God only wants the best for us so why don't we trust him to avoid the mines in the field of life?
I think the author poses a good question but I have another. Why doesn't God just help us to avoid the minefields altogether? Wouldn't that be safer?...........Wouldn't that be easier?..........
It might be safer and easier but would we learn to lean on God that way? Would we really grow closer to the one who created us without the need to trust him in that way? What kind of people would we become without trials of life to help us experience the full care and wisdom and love of God? Perhaps we would become spoiled, ungrateful, spiritually undeveloped children. Children who would never get to know just how much God loves us because we would never get to experience his enduring love during the hard times.
God is much more than a fair weather friend. He is a friend for all times, a father for all seasons, the redeemer of all people, a savior.
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