Show me who or what you really trust, and I'll give you some hints of who and what you are currently becoming.

For those who value (or think we value) the New Testament as a source of our ideas:

In the New Testament, "faith" means placing what you truly value the most completely into the hands of God and learning through experience over time that, whatever happens, that is by far the best Faith to have.

When we order fast food, we are putting our faith in the person hidden back there in the kitchen.

When we sit down, we are putting our faith in the chair.

Those are minor cases. But in what hands do we place

• ·         the next few hours when our car breaks down in the middle of nowhere at 2:00 in the morning?
• ·         the safety or very lives of our children?
• ·         our financial survival?
• ·         our sense of our own worth?

It is a grave mistake to confuse spiritual sleep-walking with faith in God.

It is a grave mistake to confuse a relatively comfortable period of life with faith in God.

How much "faith" do I put in

• ·         friends and/or family?
• ·         Trump or Bernie?
• ·         my own appearance, health and fitness, strength?
• ·         my ability to get what I want from people?
• ·         "love"
• ·         "myself"

Christ Jesus, when my truest self really does NOT put what matters most to me solely into Your hands, then deliver me from the delusion that mere "believing in Jesus" or mere "being a good person" or mere "helping others" is somehow all that matters to You.

And when something terrible happens and I blame (or even turn away from) the "god" I was "believing in," then remind me that I was practicing a form of idolatry, and invite the Real Me to The Real You - perhaps for the first time.

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Show me who or what you really trust, and I'll give you some hints as to who and what you are currently becoming.