Trust

Proverbs 22:19a, “That thy trust may be in the Lord…” 

Trusting God is a major theme in the Scriptures. I believe we could probably talk about trust and write about it every day and never exhaust the truths about this very basic trait that God desires for us to have.

Trust is believing that God is in control and all that is happening is in His hands. This seems to be a very difficult thing for us to do.  There are probably several reasons for this:  we may feel that God is moving too slow to handle a problem, or perhaps He doesn’t care about a particular need, or we may feel that if we don’t take over, nothing will be accomplished – at least not the way WE want it to be.

Several years ago, I realized that I was instructing God in my prayers on how to answer a need. I would lay out what needed to be done and how it should be done.  At some point the Holy Spirit convicted my heart and made me realize that God did not need my help in answering a prayer and that He often had something completely different in mind about how it should be handled.  This was a good lesson for me to learn (well, almost learn – I still revert back to instructing God occasionally, but the Holy Spirit is always here to remind me to let go – and let God do it His way.)

I wonder how many times a day we exhibit a lack of trusting God by our actions and thoughts. Trust is a discipline.  It should be a way of life.  Trusting to follow when we don’t understand where God is leading, or when we do not understand what He is doing, can be very difficult.  It is contrary to our nature. We need to join in with the disciples and ask the Lord to “Increase our faith,”  as stated in Luke 17:5.  God does want us to present all our cares and needs to Him, (I Peter 5:7), – but He also wants us to leave it up to Him how He chooses to answer those needs.  That is what TRUST is all about!