Remembering to Trust

I read a short devotional from Nicole Johnson . In it she was talking about how we do not forget how to ride a bike once we learn. She explained that our muscles have memory and even if we haven't ridden a bike in years, as soon as we swing our leg over the bar and sit on that seat, hanging on to the handle bars, our muscles remember what they need to do to balance and to ride that bike.



She talked about emotional memory too. How we remember certain wonderful things about our childhood, and can just as easily remember the bad. It is actually possible to feel the same emotion as in that specific memory.



The she talked about how we often struggle to trust God. Nicole Johnson suggests that we learn to rely on our "trust" memory of sorts. Remember how God came through for you the last time? Think of those times that the bill got paid when you didn't see how it would be possible. How that situation at work came to fruition and all is well. Remember how you prayed for someone you love and God worked it all out? God earned your trust. Remember all the times He earned it. He never fails you. Johnson says we have "trust memory". The more we use it, the more we will learn to trust Him. By meditating on those times in the past He carried you through, you will learn to trust Him during those future crises that may come your way. Once you learn to trust, you won't forget how and pretty soon it will be like getting on that bike again!



I thought that was kind of neat!