3 “Take nothing for the road,” he told them, “no staff, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don’t take an extra shirt.4 Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there. 5 If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.” (Luke 9:3-5 CSB)
Consider being sent out into the world with nothing, just your trust in Christ that you would be taken care of.
That may seem to be a tall order today. Times are different and people are not nearly as accepting of bringing strangers into their homes. I remember my parents, who were depression era, talking about taking people in off the road. It was a much more common act in times past.
The concept still holds for us in how Christ wants us to trust Him.
Our lives are complicated, but our trust needs to be complete if our faith is to be strong. Even when we do not think that things could not go right, God finds a way to make everything work out if keep to our faith. Far too often we do not do this, and we falter in our faith. We lose our way and tend to spiral down.
But we can always turn to Christ and stand strong in our faith. Doing for ourselves, but trusting Christ. Our faith is a partnership that requires input from us but output from Christ. The fruit of our lives speak to this partnership.
