Trusting God Goes Both Ways

 

...and Jesus said to them,

"Do you believe that

I am able to do this?"

They said to Him,

          "Yes, Lord."

Then He touched their eyes,

saying, "According to your faith,

    be it done to you."

And their eyes were opened.

          Matthew 9. 28-30

(God is able to heal,

but not always the way

    that we specify,

not always what we expect,

         nor just physically.

His healing miracles

  were never limited

to physical healing,

  but always bore

even more significantly,

     an eternal spiritual element.

Trusting God goes both ways.

Do we believe He is able

        to do this,

or even more with this?

Faith lets God be God in this.

God always comes through,

but not always

     through the front door.

We can trust Him

  and not just for an answer,

but in a far greater redeeming

    than we can know.)

O LORD,

Grow in us a faith

to trust You

        both ways.

We know that You are able

    to do, answer, and redeem,

  far deeper than we ask.

Help us to realize that You

       stretch Your redeeming

  over more than

           a singular outcome.

Open our eyes

   that we may not

          just see Your hand,

but trust You even more.