Imagine standing in a bog of quicksand.
QUICKSAND!?! Just the thought of it has our mind a-jumble. We imagine the quagmire as we slowly slip inside, the choking feeling as our head disappears into the morass of soggy soil.
“Ah, that can’t happen,” someone assures us. “It’s physics … science … you’ll never sink all the way.”
Yet, our imagination runs wild. It could be … um … a sinkhole. Perhaps it goes to the center of the earth, just down and down … it could happen, you know. Or, an underground river. When my feet hit the rushing water, I’ll be sucked inside. Arrrgh! I’m already too scared to go outside!
Yet, the reality is that quicksand only requires trust in nature, in science, in the physical laws that God has established to convince us that we are safe in quicksand. All we need is someone to pull us free. Struggling only fixes us more firmly in the bog.
1 Peter 5:7 (NIV) encourages us to:
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
Just as with quicksand, when we trust God’s immutable physical laws, we can be reassured that we cannot sink. When we trust the Word of God, we can be assured that life cannot suck us in, drown us, and prevent us from moving ahead through life.
That does not mean we will have a trouble-free life, because yes, we will stumble into quicksand now and again. We will feel it around our feet. But that’s all it will be. We can call to God and find that he’s there in our grief, our financial difficulties, and when our spouse walks out the door. We reach out our hand, and he gently pulls us to safety, our passport into trust.
God cares for us. He wants us to place our trust in him and rely on him when the quicksand comes our way.
We develop new layers of trust in God as we renew our relationship with him.
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