What does it mean to trust? A scripture in Proverbs says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5 NIV)
As I’ve been writing recently, trust is the foundation of any healthy relationship. Without trust, there is nothing to build upon.
In business, in marriage and any relationship, “trust is a must.”
How many times do we reassure each other by saying, “just trust me.” It’s our way of saying that we are trustworthy.
I believe to trust God is quite simple as a child but can become more difficult as we experience life. Many of us have trust issues because we find ourselves in situations that we cannot understand.
Our trust in a God that we cannot see may be at the center of our inability to trust Him. We think if we could see Him, we could easily trust Him. And yet if God were visible, there would be no need to trust.
We’re a lot like the children of Israel going in circles because we continue to believe that if God was present, we could trust Him.
In place of God, they built golden calves to worship because they wanted to see the God they worshipped. They wandered in the wilderness for forty years because they could not trust a God they could not see.
God kept telling them to “trust Him.”
We do the same. We go in circles because we don’t understand why. We get stuck in the “whys” of life. Instead of trusting God, we accuse Him, and we demand a better life. We want:
- An answer to prayer
- A better job
- A nicer home
- A dependable car
- A faithful husband
- A good child
- A restored relationship
- A healthy body
- A nicer wardrobe
- A better grade in school
- A baby to hold
- A friend that helps in time of need
The difficulties of life put our trust in God to the test. We want answers to the problems we face and the questions we have. But remember, God, says, “trust me.”
We have to remember not to lean on our own understanding sometimes, and believe in the trustworthiness of God.
Trust says God is with us
Trust says God is for us!
