"Do You Trust Me?"

(repost from 7/08)

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Blame it on the little ones, but the other day, in all my recent frustrations about moving on and how exactly to go about that, my mind just kept going back to the movie ‘Aladdin’. The part where Aladdin shows up outside Jasmine’s balcony and invites her to go for a ride with him… on the magic carpet. And he simply looks her in the eye, hand stretched out and says:

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“Do you trust me?”
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And she knows that she must decide. Should she take the chance of a lifetime and see all this Prince has to offer? or stay within the confines of her structured palace, settling for a ‘comfortable’ life full of certainty? And all week long, I kept hearing this very question asked of me.

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“Do you trust Me?”
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Only it’s not ‘Prince Alla-b00-boo’, rather it’s the Prince of Peace. Ruler over all of creation. Mighty hand stretched out to me, challenging me:

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“Jessica, do you trust Me?”
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And you’d think by now I would know. That it would be an almost instinctive “Yes! Of course!” Of course, I would know that I could entrust my life and my heart to the very One who formed them. That ‘the One Who loved me enough to die for me could be absolutely trusted with the total concerns of the life that He saved’. And that even though He doesn’t promise it to be a smooth ride, He promises to hold my hand the whole way through. You’d think I’d be ready to take that leap of faith. Right into His arms, wherever they may take me. On the ride of a lifetime. Full of hope. Promise. Peace. But, you’d be amazed at what fear can do.

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