Lent is a time of repentance and refocusing so that we can experience intimacy with God at a deeper level. Jesus does respond to our faithfulness. When we Seek Him, and Call on Him, and Change Our Ways, and Turn to Him, he offers mercy and forgiveness that allow our hearts to be aligned with Him.
The goal of this message is to focus on how trust is the key to connecting with God. Not the father’s trust in his children, but the child’s trust in the father. God, as a good father, wants to lavish his love on his children. Children, who desire to experience the love of a father, learn to trust that their father really is for them, and acts in a way that is most beneficial for them. God offers to adopt us, not because he trusts us, but because he loves us despite our choices. We, the adopted, choose to receive the love as a child of the father because we trust him. Without trust in our father, we are tempted to run and live a self-centered life.
