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Daily Guideposts 2016: 14-Day Plan

DAY 1 OF 14

For the past four years, I’ve been getting treatment for my depression at a clinic. The clinic has many advantages: it’s close to home, it has a great staff and facilities, and we can afford it. But it has a downside too. Since it’s a training clinic, doctors rotate in and out every two years.

I’ve developed a very good relationship with my therapist for the last two years. I’ve been able to go with him into the most painful and problematic parts of my life. I trust him. It’s hard to establish that kind of trust, and I was worried about having to start the whole process again.

Trusting people enough to share my heart with them isn’t easy for me. I’m afraid that if I let them see through the public me, the private me will repel them. It’s not a rational response; it’s an automatic emotional reaction that’s very hard for me to work through.

Unfortunately, my difficulties with trust aren’t confined to other people; they get in the way of my relationship with God. Over and over again, Scripture urges us to trust the Lord. There’s no false front I can put up to fool God; whether I like it or not, He can see right through me. And that’s pretty scary.

For me, the above verses from Galatians help me to see past the fear. When I came to Christ, I put on Christ. And when the Father looks at me, it’s not my sins and inadequacies He sees; it’s His Son, Who has taken them up and clothed them with Himself. That’s where I should be looking too.

Lord Jesus Christ, teach me how to trust in You.

—Andrew Attaway

Digging Deeper: Psalm 33:21, Proverbs 3:5, 1 Timothy 1:14

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Daily Guideposts 2016: 14-Day Plan

The Daily Guideposts 14-day reading plan includes 14 devotions from popular Guideposts authors taken from the bestselling Daily Guideposts 2016 devotional. These readings are designed to bring you closer to God through his word as you learn more about how to apply Scripture to your daily life.

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