God needs our trust

All I know is that God is love, and He is good. He will take care of us, lead us, and teach us His ways. We don't know where we will be 5 years from now, or what tomorrow will bring. But we don't need to. Our lives are not our own, they belong to God and therefore only He has to be in the know. All we have to do is be open and let Him take us where He pleases. "Take my life and let it be all for You and for Your glory"-Starfield. This is the only focus we should desire. If we give our lives as a sacrifice, then the future is not a worry. I've personally wasted a lot of time worrying about what to do after high school. I was first trying to decide for myself. When that didn't work I decided to leave it all up to God, which was the right thing to do, but I wasn't listening for His answer. I'd spent a good month or two thinking that He just wasn't answering yet and it was driving me crazy. But when I finally took a few minutes and really listened, He told me very clearly what I'm to do. When I'd come to a point where I wasn't worrying about what His answer may be, and I was completely fine with anything He gave me the answer. When I legitly went to Him about it in prayer He was happy to make it clear. We are so often wrapped up in ourselves without even realizing it, and it's hurting our relationship with Him. We worry too much about our needs and our desires, yet His Word says very clearly that He will provide for us. I'm definitely guilty of this. We worship Him for Who He is, but when He doesn't answer us the way we would like, then we look away from Him. But His ways are so much better than ours. We make things hard on ourselves for no reason.

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matt 6:34
"Do not worry about anything but instead pray about everything." Phil 4:6
"But seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you." Luke 12:31
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Luke 12:34
"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it." Mark 8:35

When we put God first, He takes care of the things that we need in this life. If we glorify Him then He will bless us. It seems that we often try to make our own decisions, and find our own happiness. But we fail ourselves so much of the time. We seek our fleshly desires too much of the time, and don't seek God's desires enough of the time. Where is your heart? Joshua 24:15 "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day who you will serve[...] But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." Are you serving the Lord, or is your heart somewhere else? If your heart is in the Lord, and the things of Him, then your treasure will also be in Him, but if you are giving yourself to anything else then the treasures you receive will be worthless. When you seek and serve God above all else, forsaking everything of this world you are everything God is looking for. When you give your whole heart, and everything that you are to God, you become usable for Him and His glory. But when you hold on to things of this world, even the smallest of things, you are going to be spit out of His mouth (Revelation 3:16). You may appear to many as a sold out Christian, but if you still are clinging to things of the flesh Jesus see's that. He will not accept you on judgment day if you are unclean (Matt 7:21-23). He requires submission. Submission requires trust. In order for a relationship to work, trust is necessary.

Just think about where your heart is and who or what you are trusting in :) And don't just take my word for it on any of this, but seek the Lord about everything in this