Even The Mayo Clinic Can't Fix This

Deut. 1:30-33 - The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.' 32 "But for all this, you did not trust the LORD your God, 33 who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.  NASU
 
In the above text Moses is retelling the Israelites the story of the Exodus. He is telling them why they had to spend 40 years wandering around in the wilderness and it all boils down to one word. 

• Trust 

The Israelites didn't TRUST the Lord. They didn't have any faith that God could do what He said He could. God wasn't asking them to have blind faith in Him. He had proved that He could do what He said He could.
 
Vs. 33 -…who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.
 
The Israelites had God leading them miraculously by day with a cloud and by night with a fire, but they would not TRUST Him.
 
How many days and nights would you need to see this special appearing of a cloud and a fire before you might have some faith in God?
 
Once your faith is broken there aren't any hospitals that you can visit to have your faith fixed. 

• What Doesn't Build Trust? 

If you don't want people to trust you then do not produce positive results, do not perform as expected. But most of us are just the opposite we want people to trust us. Therefore, you will want to perform according to expectations.
 
When someone expects something from you this can be seen as a compliment because they trust you and are allowing you to be in this situation to build a trusting relationship.
 
So go ahead and fulfill their expectations and build up your trust factor. 

• What Builds Trust? 

Now I am not referring to trust in God only. I am referring to trust period. When someone or thing performs as promised you will begin to trust them or it. The more times someone or something performs as promised our trust will increase.
 
Everyday when we get into our vehicles and we turn the key or push the button our trust level is high that it will start. Why, because of past performance and the trust we have in the battery and other engine parts.
 
Someone's past performance helps us to build trust in them and a poor performance will cause us not to trust them.

You know people right now you can trust and people you can't trust because of their past performance.
 
You probably have friends who are either always on time or consistently late. So if you need someone to be there for you you are not going to ask the person who is consistently late.
 
The Israelites didn't trust God. His past performance suggested that they should have trusted Him. He sent the 10 plagues on the Egyptians of which not a one of the plagues hurt the Israelites.

He led them out of Egypt. He parted the Red Sea. Lets be honest God had a great track record. The Israelites failed to allow God's miracles to build their trust.
 
Don't allow this to happen to you. You can read God's word today and trust in the miracles that you read about in His Word.
 
The greatest miracle that I trust in is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. I hope you trust in His resurrection as well.

• Trust Issues

When you have trust issues with someone it will most likely have to do with a poor performance from them on some of your expectations. Parents some times have trust issues with their children, employees have trust issues with their employers, coaches have trust issues with their athletes and all of these can be visa versa.

When a person wants to be trusted they will do the best they can to earn that trust. 

Be The Best You Can Be and Earn All The Trust You Can.
I don't know of anyone that wants to be considered untrustworthy.
 
Think on These:
 
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust completely.
 
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Stay Pumped,

Gary A. Serago

​Minister of God's Word