{TAO’S PARABLE}  MAKING THE LORD OUR SOURCE

Given to Tao Jin

The Lord gave me a parable to teach me to make the Lord my trust.

EXPERIENCE: While I stayed in the kitchen with my son and daughter one night, my son (5 yrs old) held something good the kids loved to eat in his hands, I saw that my daughter (2 yrs old) wanted to have it badly, I saw her approach her brother and ask his brother to give some to her to eat. She asked earnestly somehow my son didn’t want to lose the food he loved then I saw my daughter cried bitterly. When I saw what happened between them, I felt grieved and said to myself “why you begged your brother, not asked of me for what you wanted? if you asked of me, I would give it to you quickly.” Later on I went to the freezer to get the food that my daughter wanted to have. It was at that moment I thought of the following:

Many times as the children of the Lord, we are like my daughter when we are in need, we badly want the help from man but we forget that our Lord is there and ready to help us. When we only beg the man for help and forget the Lord, we grieve the heart of the Lord.

Dear brothers and sisters, no matter what our needs are, come boldly to His throne of grace to find mercy and ever present help. When we make the Lord our trust in all situations, our trust honors the Lord.

“This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." (Jeremiah 17:5-8)


With His love and Kindness

Tao

***All quoted scriptures are New International Bible.