Irwin

I grew up on the outskirts of a small village and often walked home from school on nice days.  I met a boy named Irwin who rode his bike to school and back every day.  Irwin lived past the point where our routes home separated and it gave us about 20 minutes of walking in the same direction.  Irwin rode is bike in little circles around me as we talked along the way.  I can’t remember what we talked about but there was always a lot of laughing and fun.

We became good friends throughout the school years on our walks home but as many good friends do, we moved on.  Irwin was different, some said he was a bit ‘touched’ , but I loved his difference.  Irwin was the happiest person I knew.  I loved our simple uncomplicated talks and how much we laughed together.  I wondered about Irwin, always happy and starstruck at everything around us.  I had no idea what made Irwin the way he was but I envied him.  It was as if nothing bothered him, he somehow seemed immune to worries, always happy and smiling.

I have fond memories of Irwin and would have to say if he was ‘touched’, it must have been by God.  I say this because I experienced a period of time when I was just like Irwin.  I was so happy it seemed like nothing was worth worrying about.  Nothing could wipe the permasmile off my face for a period of time that became a unique, once in a lifetime period of bliss.  I became as happy with life as Irwin.  I had just been ‘touched’ by God myself, and became born of His promised Holy Spirit the moment I believed.  I was  changed  in ways that are still revealing themselves today.  Still me but, but now complete.  A child of God.

Just as any 66 year old newborn, I had a lot of learning to, and all spiritual.  I had spent all of my life doubting the Word of God except for the last year and a half, starting the very moment I began to ‘trust’ His Word.  ‘Trust’ proved to be just as the Bible said, the beginning of my knowledge and understanding of  His Word.

Today I understand  Irwin’s world a little better.  Since my spiritual birth I have the conviction that all is well, there’s nothing to worry about.  Even though life is so much more difficult today than it was in 1966, and I continue falling to Satan’s influences in so many ways,  I have no worries about my future with God.  Irwin was born ‘touched’, by God I think, he had no worries.

KU is a personal study about ‘trust’ focused, on the Word of God.  Trust is the gate keeper to the road leading to a place of no worries about your future.  Passing through the gate was instantaneous for me the first time I realized the proof.  With proof comes trust.   Learn where, when, why, and how we be began trusting anything in our lives and you will know how to begin trusting God’s Word.

The KU online blog teaches how we develop trust in everything and goes on to apply that knowledge to the Word of God.  Recognizing the proof  provided by His Word and the resulting trust is the key to the gate.  We operate as our own gate keeper unless we take the time to seek out our own proof and begin to truly trust His Word.  Once you begin trusting it you’re through the gate and on the path leading to faith in God’s Word.  The journey is exciting beyond description, building and strengthening faith every step of the way.

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