Just a thought by coppi

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God” – Corrie Ten Boon

The key word in this statement is “known”.  One must know that the God of the Bible is real to them & that He loves them unconditionally.  If not, there is no way you can trust the “unknown”. The known God is love and if that love does not fill your heart, trust will be an unknown.  Following are three parables of how deep God’s love is for you.  1 – the Shepherd leaving the flock to search for one stray sheep. 2 – lost Pearl – a women has ten silver coins & loses one – how she lights a lamp, sweeps the house & searches carefully until she finds it.  3- the prodigal son who lost his inheritance to wild living & was living in a pig pen when he came to his senses and returned to his father and how his father saw him afar off & ran to meet him with a hug & kiss.  These are great parables of great love in the bible amidst many others.  I quote Ps 143:8 when I awake in the mornings.  I break it down as follows:  Allow:  let the mornings bring me word of your unfailing love.  Why:  for I put my trust in you.  How:  show me the way I should go.  Why: for to you I entrust my life.  Corrie Ten Boon who wrote “the Hiding Place” could have never gone through the atrocities of the Holocaust if she had not been able to trust an unknown future to a known God.