If someone lies to you, at any point for any reason, trusting again is challenging isn’t it? We usually say something like, “You will have to earn my trust back.” Depending on the severity of the lie, that can be difficult and take a lot of time. But the memory of that lie may never go away. We want to trust people right? We want to look at the good in others and feel as if we can turn to them, talk to them, and do so in a trusting relationship.
Imperfect people produce imperfect outcomes. That is not an excuse. It is a call for course correction. A call to action.
I spent much of my life apart from God. I knew marriage was important and the right thing to do. Marriage seemed more and more like just a piece of paper for the government to have in order to receive tax breaks. But I also saw divorce and lack of trust and commitment all around me. Could I trust someone else? Could I trust myself or in myself? That is not an excuse, it is a call to action.
That all changed when God came knocking on my heart. God called me to action. Marriage became a covenant, a contract, between me, my wife, and God. A covenant spells out the roles and responsibilities of all involved.
Marriage was not some document for the state. Marriage was a covenant; a covenant founded on trust; on Truth. This marriage covenant spelled out our roles as my wife and I became one. Two imperfect people no longer cursed with imperfect outcomes; but two people blessed as one held together by a perfect creator.
God created covenants with His people. These covenants are from an all-knowing, perfect God. God never lies. Everything God tells us, He follows through. Jesus loves us, and wants to be with us into eternity. That is the Truth. That is our example. When my wife and I became one under the covenant of marriage; our example of Trust and Truth was Heavenly perfect. Our example was Jesus. We trusted in each other because God gave us a path of Truth.
My call to action was Trust in Jesus; and trust in the one whom Jesus called to me.
Are we still imperfect? Yes. But we have a perfect creator and a perfect example in Jesus Christ. Each day, we seek His will and path for our lives, and trust in that journey. We trust because Jesus never lies.
And when Jesus calls you to action, trust in His plan for your life. Trust in the promise, His covenant, that Jesus wants to spend eternity with you. It just might change your life… Trust me.
Pastor Jason Pauley
