Exposing our distrust

Jesus seeks to root out distrust from our lives. How? By exposing it and showing us where we don't trust Him.

But this is a painful process. Why would He do this and allow us to go through the pain of seeing our failures? Doesn't He love us?

God is not trying to make us feel bad, or shame us, or to condemn us for not being faithful or not loving him more. He is seeking to get us to abandon our distrust so we will experience more of His love. Our distrust clouds our ability to see Him and His infinite love more fully.

He is not exposing us because he's mad or upset with us; just the opposite. It is so we will draw nearer to him so we might experience more of his love. 

God's love is perfectly set upon us and determined by Christ's faithfulness, not ours. But experiencing His love depends on us and how faithfully we pursue Him.

Peter denying Christ three times and then Christ engaging him to feed His sheep after he resurrected is a classic example of this process of exposing our distrust of God.

For a discussion on how we must first see God's love to acknowledge our unfaithfulness, click here