Trust God - The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

How many of you have been through hell with God by your side, through the trials of your life, possibly testing you? How about when you get to the other side and God is still there? You know in your heart that you've made it through the hard times and hardships because of that presence that you can always count on. The presence that always seems to provide, you know that very well. How many of you know in your hearts, in your bones, in your body that without God you couldn't, you wouldn't survive? For us, our belief and trust in God does not result from merely pondering or meditating on God, but on having a relationship with God. It's important to know that if your faith and relationship doesn't look like Abraham's, that's okay. But what is important is that you pursue a relationship. And our journeys with God are going to be different. We're going to experience God differently. That doesn't mean your faith is not as strong as someone else's faith. It just means that they're different. And as long as we're working on our faith and relationship with God, I don't believe that God is going to look at a gauge and say whether or not you have enough faith that you pray enough. God knows each and every one of us, and meets us where we're at. We experience God, we sense God, and we need God. And we know that we can trust God with our dreams, with our successes, and our failures. During our lives at every stage, God has proven to be faithful and steadfast. Even when we know we haven't always been. We know that we can count on God without full understanding or complete knowledge of what God is doing.