The Believe God's Word Challenge

THE BELIEVE GOD CHALLENGE:
While we are thinking about ways we often misunderstand and misinterpret our husbands’ intentions, motives, and words, I’d like us to pause and think about how we may do the same thing with God sometimes.

Our husbands are fallible, imperfect people. Sometimes they mess up. Sometimes they say things they shouldn’t or don’t say things they should. Husbands can lie, if they choose to. We can’t always trust or believe people, necessarily. We do need godly discernment with them. Especially if they have broken our trust or been unfaithful.

But what about with God?

Do we assume things about God’s motives, too? Like that maybe He doesn’t have our best interests at heart? Maybe He’s out to get us? Or maybe He’s too small and wimpy for us to be able to really trust Him?

Do we trust God’s Word and take what He says as truth? Or do we think we know better and we understand better what He really means or what is really true?

These wrong assumptions on our part lead us to build our lives on sinking sand and give us a faulty foundation. It leads to a lot of dysfunction in our relationship with God, with others, and with ourselves.

THE CHALLENGE
If God’s Word says it, let's seek to believe it and handle it rightly. Let’s read God’s Word everyday. Maybe a chapter per day or so and purpose to:

1. Take God’s Word at face value without assuming He has evil motives or He is untrustworthy. (Ask questions from a trusted resource if you are confused and pray for understanding.)
2. Choose to believe what He says about Himself, history, us, and His