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The Loft is the place for conversation, community, networking, and Christian growth.
Each week we provide a topic to start the conversation.
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This Week’s Topic: “Trust”
I have shared this story on my blog previously, but felt the Lord leading me to share again as we examine the issue of trust at #TheLoft. This story represents a monumental HINGE moment in my faith.
I had a choice. Would I trust God or not? God had a mind to increase my faith, but I had to make the choice to trust Him.
The year was 2002, December 18th, 2002 to be exact. Almost 2 years earlier God had called me to a place of deep hunger for His Word. My faith had been fed heaping helpings of Scripture in those two years. I had met Jesus in the pages of Scripture and He had taught me so much, but now it was time to apply what I had learned.
I had always been a Daddy’s girl. On that day in December, my Daddy was having what we thought to be a routine colonoscopy to see if a reason could be found for the lower abdominal pain he had been experiencing. Yep, you know where this is going.
Late in the morning, I received a phone call from my Mother telling me that they had found a large tumor in Daddy’s colon, and they were taking him to surgery in about 2 hours. I got in the car, drove the hour and ten minutes to the hospital where he was, and arrived just as they took him to surgery.
A few hours later, the grim-faced young surgeon spoke words that were a punch in the stomach to us. Metastatic colon cancer. Two spots on the liver. Liver resection soon. Chemotherapy. I could barely breathe. My Daddy!
After Daddy was moved to a room and I spent some time with him, I drove back home, devising all sorts of ways that we would fight the disaster of cancer. On the drive back, the Lord and I had a conversation.
“Why, Lord? Daddy has suffered so much with polio and the after-effects. Why cancer?
“Leah, do you believe that I am Who I say I am?”
“Yes, Lord, I do. I still don’t understand why, though.”
“Leah, do you believe that I love your Daddy far more than you could ever love him?”
I pondered that one for a few miles.
“I suppose I do, Lord.”
“Do you think I need your help in all of this?”
“I suppose not, Lord.”
“Then trust me, Leah.”
“I trust you, Lord.”
In that moment of choosing to trust my Lord, peace settled onto my heart like a warm blanket. I knew that however the Lord chose to work, it would be for my Daddy’s good and for Christ’s glory. Over the next 22 months, until God took Daddy home, my faith and trust in the sovereignty of God grew exponentially. I found God faithful and trustworthy. My entire family found Him faithful and trustworthy.
Sometimes trusting God requires that we lay on the altar that which is most precious to us. Whatever God requires us to lay on the altar becomes a sweet sacrifice to Him. God honors our sacrifice.
Do you trust Him? With everything and everyone in your life?
Next Week’s Topic: “Best Practical Tip” (What is the best advice you’ve ever received? Or given? What one thing do you want to make sure you pass on to your children, friends, or family? It can be about homemaking, marriage, relationship with Jesus, anything… 🙂 )
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