Those famous words of Captain Jack Sparrow come to my mind as I wrestle with some questions of my own.
See... William Turner had a loathing disgust of pirates, a complete intollerance. He couldn't bare to face the possibility that perhaps his own father, his flesh and blood, had been a pirate, that he, William Turner, had Pirate blood running in his veins. Basically, Jack Sparrow told him he could either accept it, or he could not. But it didn't change the facts and that he'd one day have to face them.
The Bible says, "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thy own understanding; in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall make thy paths straight."
We have two options: Trust in the Lord, or don't trust in the Lord. The choice is ours. But whatever we decide to do, doesn't change the facts. The Lord God above knows the beginning and the end, what is best for us and what will cause destruction. He asks us to put our trust in Him so that in the end, we will be safe with Him for all eternity. The alternative to that is a life in damnation, away from Him: Hell.
Whether we decide to trust in Him or not, doesn't change the fact that He is still Lord High God. It only changes our fate in eternity.
Even as Christians who have made the choice to be saved, which implies a trust in the Lord, we still have to make this decision throughout our Christain lives. We'll keep coming to a point where God is telling us something maybe we don't want to hear and, again, we must decide, "Can I trust God? Or can I not?"
Now, we don't ever have to make this decision with no information. God is a faithful God and has been such througout all the ages. If we cannot look over our past and see His faithfulness to us, over and over again, well then we can look in the Bible, look at the history books, look at the first settlers in America, the Revolutionary war... the list goes on.
We have the tools to make an informed decision. But the question is not complicated. Will I trust God, or will I not?
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