Introduction

The Diaper Bag Experience

• • 2 kids that I drove every day to the daycare. Ben was a toddler, Lillian still an infant in a crib.
  • This giant diaper bag went with them wherever we went.
  • I had the tendency to put it on the top of the car as I was fastening in kids into their travel systems.
  • Leave it on top of car.
  • Left it behind the wheels.
• I’d forgotten the bag
• We forget the most important thing in our faith.
  • Trusting Jesus.

Three Pennies and a Rock Recap

• Lillian’s story
• Jesus tells us to be childlike
  • Matthew 18:1-4 – “At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.’”
• The point is to learn why we ought to take this holy work of becoming child-like and then talking about the ways and means to do the work.
• Today, we’re talking about TRUST, the thing many of us leave behind in our faith lives.
  • Lillian story
    • Go and sit down in the purple chair and wait for me to fix your dinner.
      • She trusted me!
    • Just like that darned diaper bag that I kept forgetting even though it was essential to the operations of baby-toting, many of us forget to trust Jesus when the time is right.
      • When is the time right?
        • Always!
      • You would think trusting Jesus would be easy, right?
        • He loves us, He saved us, He prepares a place for us in the coming Kingdom. What’s not to like? 
        • But it isn’t. Not for most people.  Why not?
          • To begin with, Jesus asks us to do difficult, arduous and even to our ears ridiculous stuff on occasion.
            • Carry my cross
            • Turn the other cheek
            • Pray for your enemies
          • That stuff is HARD to trust Jesus on, especially when the world’s wisdom seems so much, well, easier.
          • But the second, and perhaps the most significant reason reason people have a difficult time trusting Jesus?
            • They don’t know HIS Word.
          • God really does answer our prayers, but sometimes seeing it requires a working knowledge of His Word!

The Trust of a Child

• When Lillian was around
• One of the reasons we surround a child with so much watch-care is that they simply don’t know the ways of the world yet. They’re unaware that people have agendas, tell lies, and that the world is broken by sin.
  • They just trust.

Trust in Jesus begins with Trusting His Word

• When I think of all the things, I trust without knowing anything about the topic whatsoever, I’m staggered.
  • Power
    • I know nothing of the stuff but expect, without thinking, every time I turn on a light switch that light will shine. At times, I trust Duke Energy more to shine lights than Jesus Christ
  • Water
    • Again, no real idea how that stuff works. BUT I TRUST EVERY TIME I TURN ON A WATER FAUCENT, WATER WILL RUN
  • I’m guessing that many of us here sadly have a stronger belief that the lights will turn on when they get home than that God would do something wonderful in and through their lives.
    • That’s depressing
    • That’s the chief reason why the church is stalled.
      • We’ve got trust issues.

 There is a reason we have trust issues in the church!

• Not many of us know the Bible very well aside from a few verses and stories.