MIND OF TRUTH

Pictures from Monticello this summer

I wanted to share this quote which has meant so much me the past several months.  I can't stress enough how much I feel in my spirit that trusting God wholly and completely is becoming more and more critical.  The distinction between those who trust fully in the Lord and those who do not will become very apparent.  The duality of trust and the self reliance that exists in most believers will begin to be exposed.  Life and resource and abundance will flow through a life that is yielded, trusting, and humbled before the Lord. "The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guar

Every time I see Jesus in my mind, He is standing about twenty yards in front of me.  He looks back at me with such a reassuring, confident smile and He waves for me to come up where He is and then He keeps walking forward.  He does not fear to step out into my unknowns, to approach the raging river, or face the towering mountains before Him.  He has no reservations about leading me through those places.  I pause in fear as I allow my eyes to focus on the natural forces opposing me, but He is not moved.  He is a confident, mighty warrior who has no equal and who cannot be moved.  He sees with the Father's eyes.  His eyes look through the impossible, through every obstacle.  He knows the raging rivers must part before Him and the mighty mountain must bow in His presence.  The Earth shakes at the sound of His mighty voice, yet this man calls to me to walk with Him.  He is infinitely more confident in me that I am in myself. I am a complete stranger to myself compared to His intimate