Faith in God's Care: The Stable Boat of Trust

Faith means that we trust that it is God who lives in our heart, and whatever God does is the best for us, and he can do anything that he wants and he is aware.

To have that faith, you see, can seem like a risk because the preoccupation of the 'me' comes only because we feel like God is not concerned. Can we be preoccupied with 'me' if you knew fully that God is taking care? No, cannot be, isn't it? Just like we are sitting on the most stable boat in the universe and we are still preoccupied with learning how to swim. Then that would be a waste of time, isn't it? So truly put yourself in God's boat and don't worry about swimming lessons for a few days. Give yourself—we always make a deal whenever we meet, I don't know how that deal actually works out—but if you just allow yourself to just let go and allow God to move you, allow him to guide you, then the mind's temptations of bringing the focus back to 'me' and 'my life' will be easier to let go of. And you know that you can see for yourself that God is always taking care.

Yeah, so spend all your time with that. Or tell me that once he takes care of it for the thousandth time, then I will leave everything to him. What is the mark that we need to hit? Say that again, repeat that. Like we say that the sun comes out from the East, you know, it rises in the East. We say that we noticed it, you see. So how many times do we need to notice it before we can conclude that yes, the sun does come from the East? In the same way, that God is taking care of everything, what is that number? What is that point at which we will say, 'Yes, now I truly know that all that is needed is for me to be in his life, and then he is taking care of my life anyway'?

What is that point? Where will you reach a point of faith where you will not have to worry about yourself anymore?

Yes, but what seems even rational to you? How many times should he have to prove himself before he becomes worthy of our full faith? If you were to turn the tables—so we are saying that actually hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of times God is just taking care of the smallest, subtlest things in our life, you see, and yet we find it difficult to fully rely on him, to have a full faith on him. If it was a worldly relationship between two people, when would one give up? When would I give up? When would you give up? Maybe the fifth time, or the tenth time, or the twentieth time? So when it is said God is truly faithful, that he has always been there, he's always taken care, now it is time for us to accept that. To really surrender, to accept that we don't know, that we can't do, we have to rely on him.