Today’s devotion is based on Week 3 of “Resolve”: Trust the right person!! (WATCH HERE)
Children are good at just sharing the problem.
“Mom, I can’t tie my shoe.”
“Dad, my bike is broken.”
“Mom, I’m hungry.”
“Dad, my car doesn’t start.”
Why do children do this?
One simple reason. They trust their parents can do something about it.
Sometimes they might propose a solution, but often its just the problem. Sometimes a parent might say, “I don’t have time right now,” but the child doesn’t stop trusting, they know their parent will do something about it.
When you trust the right person, you can trust the problem will be taken care of.
Early in Jesus’ ministry, Mary, his mother, set forth a problem to her son.
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” (John 2:1-3)
Mary doesn’t propose a solution, but presents the problem.
She trusts Jesus with the problem.
Have we lost the childlike trust in our Savior?
Do we present problems with asterisks? Or propose specific solutions as though we give God a multiple choice of possibilities that we think will be probable solutions?
It’s almost as though we need to not just figure out one solution, we have to figure out three to four possible solutions for God to pick one.
Forgive us Lord for failing to tell you the problem as well as trying to give you possible solutions. Both exhibit a lack of trust.
Mary knew Jesus was the Son of God and simply let Jesus know the problem. She trusted the problem was in better hands with Jesus than it was in hers.
Our problems are in better hands with Jesus than in ours.
He doesn’t need our solutions.
He doesn’t need our rationale about the problem.
He doesn’t even need to rate the size of our problem.
He just wants our problem and our heart to trust he can and will do something about the problem.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is when we fail to trust that Jesus can deal with our problem.
The amazing thing is Jesus even dealt with that problem.
He forgives it.
Which gives us a reason to even trust him more.
If he can take care of our biggest problem, he certainly can take care of our smaller ones.
So Jesus, here’s my problems…
I trust you to handle them better than I would.
Apply: What problems are you facing? Take time today to share them with the Lord. Just the problems. No rationale. No multiple choice solutions. Just the problems. Trust they are in better hands with Jesus than with you.
Prayer: Forgive me Lord for not trusting you with my problems. Strengthen my heart to trust you with all aspects of my life, especially my problems. AMEN.