learning to trust god

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Learning

to TrustGod

We start with His

integrity!

Kah Wor


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Table of Contents

Foreword (3)

Synopsis (4)

Can God Be Trusted? (5)

The Christian Anomalies (6)

My Christian Life (7-9)

Gods Love (10-11)

What is Sin? (12)

Disobedience (13-14)

Trusting God (15-16)

Christian Growth (17)

Christian Anomalies Explained (18-19)

Conclusion (20-21)

Note from Author (22)


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Foreword

I am a Christian beginning to realize that God is my loving

Father in heaven as proven by the death of Jesus the Christ,

His only Beloved Son.

In the unfolding pages, all negative connotations have been

made in reference to me. I do not speak for or of others.

This is a result of personal experiences and observations. Thisis by no means a sermon of any sort nor does it serve to

generalize the Christian experience. I am no Bible teacher or

pastor. I am the beloved child of God getting to know (as a

privilege) Him as a loving Father.

If you have been blessed by this e-book, let all the glory and

praise redound to my loving Father in heaven in Jesus Name.

If you find anything amiss, let God judge my heart.


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Synopsis

Every time the evil one returns with that same stinking lie aboutGod, I say, NO-ah! Noah means rest. Then I turn to the Crossand I shout, YES-hua! Yeshua is my Lord Jesus. He is thepersonification of the unearned, unmerited and undeservedlove of God for me. Not knowing how much God loves meresults in disobedience. And disobedience opens the door tosin. Sin is rejecting Gods love.

The fulfillment of Bible prophesies points to the integrity of God.

In other words, they serve to convince me that God can betrusted.

I believe God has allowed scientific discoveries to be made toconfirm Biblical accounts. Not that God needs the testimony ofman to confirm His integrity. It is for my benefit that He hasdone so. It is to satisfy my fallen mind and allow it to beconvinced of His integrity. This is so that I can learn to trust

Him.

Psalm 138:2 tells me that God magnified His Word above allHis name! This is how much God honours His Word! Hisintegrity!

God is not like human beings to lie! God cannot lie!

God has chosen the nation of Israel to tell the world that He is

real! Israel is real! God is real!God sent His only Beloved Son to die on the Cross as Jesusthe Man to prove to me that He loved me.

If I believe that Israel is real, I can believe Jesus is real. If I canbelieve Jesus is real, I can believe God loved me!
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Can God be Trusted?

How can I know for sure that this God of the Christians can be

trusted? To begin with, is he even real? And who is this guy

Jesus? My Christian friends told me he is the son of their God;

another fictional fallacy? Lagi (meaning more in the Malay language)

confusing!

A joker friend of mine came telling me this:

Every time the evil one returns with that same stinking lie aboutGod, we say, NO-ah! Noah means rest. Then we turn to theCross and we shout, YES-hua! Yeshua is our Lord Jesus. Heis the personification of the unearned, unmerited andundeserved love of God for us.

What in the world is he talking about?!? I reallyLia'h Boh Kiew(Literally means catch no ball. Refers to completely not understand)!

When can they ever speak in layman terms which I canunderstand?!?


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The Christian Anomalies

When I look at my Christian friends, I find them both weird and

strange. Some of them are even darn hao lian (meaning proud in

Hokkien, a Chinese dialect). I heard an incident of two Christians

coming to blows right after Church because of some parking

disputes. Can anyone blame me for being skeptical?

And those others that I know say one thing but do another. Tak

boleh tahan [colloquial Malay loosely translated as "I can't take it anymore"]!They

talk the walk but dont seem to walk the talk.

Yet when I look at their lives, some are doing pretty well while

those who are not appear happy. Are they really happy or

macam (Means to resemble something) happy only?!? Dont wayang

(Malay for pretend) lah! How can anyone be happy without money?

Money is king you know? If their God is not giving them lots of

money, why do they still trust him? Have they been

brainwashed or something? Interesting.

Then some biao kia (meaning idiot in Hokkien) told me God help those

who help themselves! What crap!

The lagi tok kong (Hokkien term meaning superb) classic was this

thingy called tithing. They told me that when I give 10% of my

money to the Church, their God would bless me. Yo Magoo!

Who is blessing who now? That sound like a con job to me man!

I only know the chicken thigh in my Hainanese chicken rice!

Vomit blood you know!


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My Christian Life

Then one Christian chow Ah Beng (meaning an uncouth or unculturedperson in Hokkien) told me to read the Old Testament in the Bible.The Old testa what? The only one I know ends with icles!Only he got the balls to ask me to do a thing like this! He told

me that it records the of his God.I understood that tomean loyalty or faithfulness. I can relate to that. I learnt thatterm when I watched Hong Kong movies. It is that special bondbetween blood brothers.

But I still have a problem. The things written in the OldTestament sound absurdly alien to me, even to the point ofbeing ludicrous! They are but stories at best. Most of the time, Icould not understand any of it for the life of me. My Beng(meaning an uncouth or uncultured person in Hokkien) Christian friend thenasked me to go church to better understand the Bible. Me gochurch?!? What is happening to me?!?

The Church service was hilariously funny. I never knew goingto church could be so much fun. I have imagined myself beingbored to tears! The pastor was very good with jokes. Yet, those

jokes helped me understand the Bible better. It became aroutine for me, at least for quite a while. Then I started tithing. Ihave never given so much money for nothing concrete to holdin return. But my financial horizon was the same. I did notreceive any phenomenal quantum increase in my finances.Then I heard a sermon telling me to tithe with a revelation. I didnot have it. I stopped tithing. After a while, I realized I also didnot have a revelation about going to church. I stoppedattending church.

But somehow, this thingy got me to read the Bible overand over again. I bought volumes of Christian books written bymany popular Christian authors and sermon DVDs of that funnypastor as well as other well known ones. I walloped them all.


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Yet I could find no satisfaction. I felt very buay song (colloquialHokkien for not happy)!

Whenever I wanted to give it all up, I would receive literature inone form or another that addressed those very sentiments forthe moment. I believe the spiritual jargon is word ofknowledge? I am still not sure about that. But it kept me going.

I reached a point when I was reading the Bible for the sake ofreading. To kill the boredom, I started writing. A Christian bigbrother warned me to be careful about not writing the wrongthings. It scared the shit out of me. He was the spiritual fatheryou know. Dont play play! (Singapore colloquial for be serious. Oftendeliberately mispronounced "don't pray-pray").

But then what are the right things? Who is the judge of what isright or wrong? Cant I write about what I find the Bible is tellingme? If you dont like what I write, you can always disregardthem! Irritatingly perturbing!

While writing, I found it useful to do word study. So I began tostudy the Strongs Concordance as well. It was a refreshingexperience. Gradually, I formed the habit of recording anythoughts of Bible scriptures that come to my mind; either in myhand-phone or on paper. Those thoughts were sporadic at first.It helped that I reduced them in writing as it served to arrestand rein in those thoughts. As time went by, those intermittentthoughts that peppered my mind seem to be converging at onepoint the love of God.

In all honesty, I found that mushy thought repulsive at first. I ama full-grown man. I am tough. I am strong. I am macho. I am apillar of strength. I have been seasoned by the weathers of life.Only gu niangs (colloquial for weaklings) need love.

Then I realised I have interpreted love as protection for the

weak. I have been brought up in a culture of(a real man can bleed but cannot cry) , (a real man do not cry

easily) and (head can break, blood can flow but
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tears cannot flow). It is the prideful and unrealistic expectations of a

man to be able to stand up against anything while suppressingall the accompanying emotions. Hello! I am a man; not

superman! Even superman has a nemesiskryptonite!

But Gods love for me encompasses every fabric of my life. Itincludes provisions and gifts. Well, I can live with that! Later, Isuccumbed to the need for protection too; His protectionagainst the unseen enemies of sicknesses and diseases andviruses. I dont know about you. But I sure need to be insulatedagainst all that!


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Gods Love

As I began to read the Bible from that perspective, the burningquestion arose within me: How do I know that He loves me?

Then I read Romans 5:8and found out that Jesus Christ is theonly Beloved Son of God sent to die on the Cross to proveGods love for me.

When I read John 3:16again, it dawned on me that the wordloved is in the past tense. It indicates the duration of His love

for me. He loved me from before antiquity all the way through toeternity. In short, He loved me for a very long time and formuch longer time to come! That represents the scope of Hislove.

Then I saw the depth of His love for me in those words Hisonly begotten Son. He gave up His only Son for me. Matthew3:17 tells me that Jesus Christ is not only Gods only Son butHis Beloved Son.

The word beloved means greatly loved. Would I ever give up

what I love greatly for someone else? Hell no!

Then Philippians 2:6-8 showed me what Gods only BelovedSon has given up to die for me, Who, although beingessentially one with God andin the form of God [possessingthe fullness of the attributes which make God God], did

not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerlygrasped orretained, But stripped Himself [of all privilegesand rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant(slave), in that He became like men andwas born a humanbeing. And after He had appeared in human form, Heabased andhumbled Himself [still further] and carried Hisobedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!
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Would I ever give up a life of power and luxury for a bunch of

irritating arseholes?You must be kidding!

Would I be so stupid to be punished for the mistake of one who

treats me like a bitter enemy?You must be out ofyour mind!

True love carries with it a price. A price that costs the best ofwhat the lover has. It is pure folly to me. But this is the love ofGod for me.

Psalm 8:4, What is man that You are mindful of him, and theson of [earthborn] man that You care for him?

God loved me!


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What is Sin?

As I think on the scriptures from the standpoint of Gods love forme, it occurred to me that sin is rejecting Gods love. From myword study, I found out that sin means missing the mark. Butwhat is the mark? The mark is Gods love for me. That thoughtrests quietly within me.

So what does it mean to reject His love? In page 103 of TheStrongs Concordance of Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary,

some clues are provided:

The fruit of this tree (the Tree of the Knowledge of Good andEvil; italics added by me), if consumed, would reveal thedifference between moral evil and moral good. This referencealso suggests that, by eating this fruit, man attempted todetermine for himself what good and evil are

As I reflected on it, I find myself becoming increasingly

convinced that Adam chose to decide for himself what is goodand evil for himself against Gods better counsel. In effect,

Adam was telling God to let him determine for himself what isright or wrong. In essence, he was telling God to not tell himwhat to do! Let him be the captain of his own life!

Step back old man!

That sounds like rejecting Gods love.


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Disobedience

As I kept on thinking about it, I read Romans 5:12 and 19

again. It struck me that sin was a result of disobedience. Beforethe Fall, there was no sin yet. Then what made Adamdisobedient? It cannot be sin. Sin was non-existent yet. In aflash, I saw it. Adam did not know just how much God lovedhim!

Like a child just brought into the world, he is more curious thanconscious of the parents love for him. He has yet to realize that

his parents know much better and far more than him. He hasyet to experience the love of his parents which is most evidentwhen he messes up only to find them clearing up the crap afterhim. Thereafter, he finds himself in the loving arms of theparents kissing him and assuring him of their love for him. Inthe next breath, the child messes up again-BIG TIME! Hisparents clear his shit again. And the cycle goes on. This is howa child grows to be convinced of his parents love for him. I

believe this is the reason God made the human race throughAdam with the foreknowledge of Adams disobedience. Theparable of the Prodigal Son serves to support this notion [Luke15:11-32].

Adam was like an innocent and curious child deceived intobelieving that God kept some good things from him. I see this inGenesis 3:4-5, But the serpent said to the woman, You shallnot surely die,For God knows that in the day you eat of it your

eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing thedifference between good and evil andblessing and calamity.

If I may paraphrase those verses, it would be something along

these lines, God is bluffing you. He does not want you to eat

the fruit because there is something good for you there. He

does not want you to have it. He is keeping that good thing

from you.
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In other words, the crafty serpent was insinuating that God is a

liar Who loves not. But Bible says that God loves [1 John 4:8].

Hence, not knowing how much God loves me results in

disobedience. And disobedience opens the door to sin.

Si Gin Na Mai Thiay Lin Bey Gong (Hokkien for dying or naught boy not

listening to what the father says). Didnt the Bible say that Adam will

surely die on the day he eats from the forbidden tree?

But how do I really know that God loves me? The standard

answer is to look at Jesus on the Cross.

Frankly, that tells my mind that the Cross is the proof of Gods

love. But my heart is a blank! In other words, I am not

convinced leh!

What now?

Most of my Christians friends told me that they know God loves

them because He has blessed them in this and that.

So when I am not blessed in this and that, does it mean God

dont love me?

Then why did the Bible say that Jesus on the Cross is the proof

of Gods love for me. Why didnt the Bible say Gods blessingsare the proof?

Si buay Luan! (Hokkien for very confused). Freaken confusing!

Then I have this gut feel to look at the fulfillment of Bible

prophesies.
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Trusting God

Therein lies the key to learning to trust God. At least my gut istelling me so. It starts with knowing and understanding theintegrity of God. This is seen in the Old Testament accounts ofHim doing exactly what He said He would do. If we cannot trustthe integrity of God, how can we ever come to trust Him? Thetrust lies in His integrity.

Some of the Biblical accounts are too far back into antiquity for

me to relate to. I believe God has allowed scientific discoveriesto be made to confirm Biblical accounts. Not that God needsthe testimony of man to confirm His integrity. It is for my benefitthat He has done so. It is to satisfy my fallen mind and allow itto be convinced of His integrity. This is so that I can learn totrust Him.

Of all the Bible prophesies, the one about the nation of Israel

kept coming to my mind. Israel as a nation was dispersedthroughout the world for hundreds of years. It is just simplyamazing that she has not become extinct. Instead, she cameback as a very resilient nation with most, if not all, of her cultureand customs intact. Can anyone beat that?

God has chosen the nation of Israel to tell the world that He isreal!

The fulfillment of Bible prophesies proved Gods integrity[Numbers 23:19]. It is here that I start to learn of Gods

integrity or His faithfulness to His Word [Isaiah 55:11]. When I

begin to see God as faithful, He says that I have seen well

[Jeremiah 1:12].

When I am convinced that God is not a man that He should lie[Numbers 23:19], then I can finally be on the same page or

frequency as Him.
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The arrangement of the three Books of Job, Psalms andProverbs gives me an idea of the progression in trusting God.

In the book of Job, Job was oblivious of Gods unconditionallove for him. He imagined that his spiritual piety was the basis

of Gods providence.

Right after the Book of Job is the Book of Psalms. It was written

mainly by David, a man who sought Gods love; a man after

Gods own heart [Acts 13:22]. Then the Book of Proverbs

(Wisdom) followed. Wisdom is the knowledge ofGods love put

into action; it is trusting in His love for me. It is being Christlike.

Jesus Christ the Man epitomized complete trust in God. Abram

was a type of that epitome. Abram trusted God to provide the

sacrificial lamb even to the point of lifting the knife to slay Isaac,

the son he deeply loved, when God came through. [Genesis

22:8,12-13]. It was through such experiences of trusting God

that Abraham was fully persuaded and won over by theintegrity of God and His love for him [Romans 4:20-21].

So shall I progress in the journey of trusting God. I start off bybeing ignorant of His gracious and unconditional love. Throughthe fulfillment of Bible prophesies, I begin to trust in Godsintegrity. This is so that I will accept His testimony of His lovefor me as proven by the death of His only Beloved Son on the

Cross as Jesus the Man. With that, I can begin to accept Hisarrangements in my life trusting that He has my best interest atheart. As I allow His Sovereign and loving purpose to shinethrough in my life, I will begin to understand His love for me.Every time I allow that to happen, the trust in Him deepensFinally, I enter into a trusting and loving relationship with Him.
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Christian Growth

When I learn to trust in Gods love for me, I will gradually

become contended with whatever earthly lot He has given me

[Philippians 4:7]. I rest in knowing that His great love for me is

working all things (good and bad) together for my good

[Romans 8:28]. I trust that He knows better when to give me

what I need [Jeremiah 29:11].

With this contentment comes peace [1 Timothy 6:6]. Girded by

full confidence in His perfect providence, I no longer need tocompare with others. What I have now is Gods best forme at

this particular station of the current stage of my life. There is no

place for envy or jealousy. They cause unrest, disharmony,

rebellion and all sorts of evil and vile practices [James 3:16,1

Corinthians 3:13].

I do not need to be bothered by what others are saying about

me. Who shall lay a charge against me when it is God Who

justifies me [Romans 8:33]? It is before my Lord Jesus the

Christ that I stand or fall. My Lord is mighty to support me and

make me stand [Romans 14:4]. Hence I do not find the need to

engage in tongue lashing [James 3:6].

This is the kind of peace that Jesus has given and bequeathed

to me [John 14:27].

Thank You Jesus!
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Christian Anomalies Explained

Now that I am the beloved child of God, I can better understand

the anomalies mentioned at the onset of this e-book.

The best lay man term I know of when sharing the Gospel is totell you that a man laid down His life for you willingly. That Manwas Jesus the Christ. He is the only Beloved Son of God.

Whenever I am engaged in open disputes, it is because I donot carry everything to Jesus in prayers but took things into myown hands instead.

I may not be filthy rich and yet be happy. I am contended withwhatever earthly lot He has given me [Philippians 4:7]. I rest inknowing that His great love for me is working all things (goodand bad) together for my good [Romans 8:28]. I trust that Heknows better when to give me what I need [Jeremiah 29:11].

Whenever I trust in Gods love for me, I walk on the storms of

my life. The moment I fret over those challenges, I sink intothem. Even then, my Lord is able and mighty to lift me up whenI cry to Him for help [Matthew 14:29-31]. Hence, I becomeclumpy and look like I have been baptized in tom-yam juicewhenever I take my eyes off the love of God for me.

When I appear hao lian (proud), it is only because I have yet toanchor my security in Gods love for me.

The saying of God help those who help themselves is notBiblical. If you can help yourself, you wont be asking God forhelp. God specializes in helping those who realize that theycannot help themselves.
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If you dont feel like tithing, dont! Just focus on getting to know

His integrity. ! A king or gentleman wont go back on

his promise. And He is the King of Kings!

Finally, I have become so accustomed to living a life without

God that it will take some time for me to get used to living this

new lifestyle of dependence on Him or trusting Him. Therefore,

I may come across to you as one who talk the walk but not

walk the talk.

It is a paradigm shift.

It is like the right-handed holding a toothbrush in the left hand to

brush the teeth. I am His work-in-progress. You will get to see a

perfect me when my Lord Jesus Christ returns.

I pray that I will be counted among your number.


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ConclusionI place my trust in a person because of his proven integrity.

I can only begin to trust God when I am convinced of His

integrity. This is seen in Him doing exactly what He said He

would do. This is the fulfillment of Bible prophesies. They are

not some mystical phenomenon to entertain my feeble mind.

They point to Gods integrity.

The Christian faith is not a blind faith. It is based on Gods

persuasion through His Word. The basis of faith is Gods

revelation of Himself. Gods Word is Himself. God is His Word.

His Word is Him. His integrity is His Word.

The saying, You have my word, makes reference to a

persons integrity.

Therefore, God says inJeremiah 1:12, NIV that He is watching

to see that His Word is fulfilled. Again inIsaiah 55:11, God said

that His Word shall not return to Him void. They both echo

Numbers 23:19, that God is not a man that He should lie. All

these point to His integrity.

Psalm 138:2 tells me that God magnified His Word above allHis name! This is how much God honours His Word!

In other words, God is telling me that I have His Word. He is

telling me that when He says something will be done, it is done.

I cannot come to a place of trusting God because of what

others are saying about Him. I need to see for myself and be

personally won over.
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Jesus is asking me the same question he did Peter, But who

do you yourselves say that I am? [Mark 8:29].

How would I answer? I wonder.
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Note from Author

Anyone can interpret the scriptures in favour of an adopted

stand [2 Peter 3:16]. I find that the only constant in the Bible is

Gods love for me. I find the love of God is beyond any doubt

the crimson thread running through the Bible from cover to

cover. Therefore, I have chosen to read and interpret the Bible

in the greater context of His love for me.

This is my personal conviction. This is how I enjoy my Bible.

I am the beloved child of God that Jesus the Christ has made

me to be [2 Corinthians 5:21] in the process of getting to know

Gods love for me.

If you have been blessed by this literature, let all the glory and

praise redound to our loving Father God. If there is anything

you find amiss, let God judge my heart.

If you would like to support the declaration of Gods great love,

you can do soHERE.

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Every time the evil one returns with that same stinking lie about God, Isay, NO-ah! Noahmeans rest. Then I turn to the Cross and I shout, YES-hua! Yeshua is my Lord Jesus. Heis the personification of the unearned, unmerited and undeserved love of God for me. Notknowing how much God loves me results in disobedience. And disobedience opens the

door to sin. Sin is rejecting Gods love.

The fulfillment of Bible prophesies points to the integrity of God. In other words, they serveto convince me that God can be trusted.

I believe God has allowed scientific discoveries to be made to confirm Biblical accounts.Not that God needs the testimony of man to confirm His integrity. It is for my benefit thatHe has done so. It is to satisfy my fallen mind and allow it to be convinced of His integrity.This is so that I can learn to trust Him.

Psalm 138:2tells me that God magnified His Word above all His name! This is how muchGod honours His Word! His integrity!

God is not like human beings to lie! God cannot lie!

God has chosen the nation of Israel to tell the world that He is real! Israel is real. Then Godis real!

God sent His only Beloved Son to die on the Cross as Jesus the Man to prove to me thatHe loved me.

If I believe that Israel is real, I can believe Jesus is real. If I can believe Jesus is real, I canbelieve God loved me!
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