Day FIVE
Do You Trust God With The Future? The second foundational area in our lives that we strengthen and realign to God’s way through fasting and prayer is: Trust in His plan for your life.
The devil tempts Jesus to jump off the highest point of the temple, even quoting Psalm 91 saying that the Messiah would be protected. What he really was saying was that if you were to jump off the temple and not get hurt in front of everyone, they would accept that you were sent from God and listen to you. Sounds like a counterfeit plan for dying on the cross and being raised from the dead, but without all the suffering and pain and humiliation that would bring.
Have you ever been tempted to take the easy way out because you try to convince yourself that God wouldn’t want you to suffer at all? Let’s go deeper.
- Have you ever wondered if God’s plan was really working out?
- Have you ever thought that it might be quicker or easier to do it in a different way?
- Ever thought you could go to a club and pick up that partner you so desperately want rather than wait so long for God to bring them along?
- Have you ever thought if you just cheated a little on your tax return it would get you ahead that little bit quicker?
- Have you ever thought that if you just tell the right people the right things and make things happen a little you could give God a hand?
Thankfully Jesus was aware of the implication of the temptation before Him.
To receive the acceptance of the people without going to the cross would be to question whether God was really in the plan at all. That was exactly the situation Moses wrote about in Deuteronomy 6:16, which Jesus quoted. Moses referred back to a time when the people wondered whether God was really with them (Ex. 17:7). But Jesus was confident of the fact that God was with Him and that the Father’s plan and timing were perfect even if it meant going through pain and suffering to accomplish it. Are you?