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Are you lukewarm? Do you trust in Him?

I think how much you trust Him is related to wether you're a "lukewarm" believer. I was thinking the other day of the "Oceans" song by Hillsong. I remember when  I first heard it, the day I was burying miscarried twins. A verse in the song sings,
 " Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger

In the presence of my Savior". 

It was definitely a time of my trust being stretched way beyond. Life has thrown some more curveballs and I'm finding I need to speak out loud that I trust Him. My mind could easily go to the worries and fears and play a movie in my head of the worst happening. Then I'll find myself depressed,immobile, and stressed. That doesn't help and I've learned that over the years so now when I start going there I speak out His word and glorify Him and put my trust in Him.

I started to think of how much or little we may actually trust Him or His good plan for us either in the big things or small things and simply everything. And how we believe His word can be related to being a lukewarm believer or a burning, passionate ,confident ,world changing believer.

I've been hurt and disappointed by many in my life and have even had moments in life where I felt disappointed or hurt by The Lord during times where I felt I wasn't protected by something or He didn't move in the way I felt He should've or the way I wanted Him too.
I could stay in that place/frame of mind or choose to believe that He is above all things, that all things will be used for His glory, that my character is being built and strengthened in those difficult times,that He knows the begining through the end,that His ways are higher than mine,that He intercedes for me, that He works in mysterious ways... And so on.  
So I put my trust in Him. 

Lukewarm people do not test His word. Lukewarm people do not stretch their faith beyond their ability at that moment of what they can see, lukewarm people do not radically change the world. 
Lukewarm people do not intercede they stay neutral. Lukewarm people stay in the boat and don't try to walk on water. Lukewarm people don't take a stand for anything. Lukewarm people do not want to  step into areas where trust has no borders,they stay within their "box".  

I find the more I put my trust in Him, the deeper He brings me. Into areas my feet alone would not dare to go. But because I choose to trust that He is for me and not against me, that He is the  King of all Kings and my Father who jealously loves me... I can do more than I ever thought I could've. I can make it through more than I ever thought. I can go after more of what I want and what He wants.  I can stand on His word and believe.

I'm out in some deep waters even now, but I will choose to trust Him and know that He will lead me while I've stepped out and said "yes,I trust you, even though this seems so scary and I can't see, I know that You are there and You will lead me". 

I would never want to live a lukewarm,neutral life. Now I'm not saying that you have to go through terrible things, but you will go through things that are not comfortable. 

It's not comfortable at first to go up to someone and pray for healing for them. Trust Him and what He says, and keep at it. You will see Him. Your trust will increase, your faith will increase, and your boundaries will increase.





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