Then she said, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you've made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your strength." Judges 16:15 NIV Bible
Of course, some of this doesn't apply to me, because it's when Delilah asked this of Samson. The thing is, it applies to me despite that. It makes me think that the Lord God is saying to me, "Debbie, how can you say, 'I love you, Lord,' when you won't confide in Me?"
I get so busy trying to control situations, that I find myself forgetting to put my life, my concerns, and stress into the Lord God's very capable hands. When I'm worrying about things, it's like I'm saying to Christ, "I don't exactly trust You to take care of my concerns. So, I'm going to try to control things and make everything turn out the way I think is best for everyone." I don't know about you, but that rarely works out well. Although I love the Lord so much, at times, I find myself slipping into old patterns of trying to resolve issues on my own. Fortunately for me, He is patient and forgiving and brings me back to refocus on Him, as Lord, and to confide my heart's concerns to Him.
This is one of the many reasons that I love reading the Bible from cover to cover. It allows me the opportunity to find things in the Bible that allow me to relate to the Lord God on a more personal level. I realize there are those who think the Bible is antiquated with all the thee's and thou's, but if you read the Bible with an open heart, the Lord God has many personal lessons within it that we can apply to our own lives!
