Trust matters.
There are several meanings to the word trust, but a simple definition is a “belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc.” (Merriam-webster).
What are some things or people you trust?
We trust that furniture is made well enough to support us. We trust that someone we hire will follow through on the work getting completed. We trust friends with confidential sentiments, spouses with fidelity, and teachers with good intent.
In some of those situations we assume automatic trust without much consideration.
Do we trust God so effortlessly?
God gives us a beautiful picture of this, lived out, as we see how children trust their parents. Babies are born helpless and are totally dependent on their parents, mothers particularly. Parents are trusted for nourishment, physical needs, and emotional care.
Do we, as God’s children, live the reality of God as our provider and caretaker? As the creator and sustainer of life, he is sovereign. As the loving Heavenly Father, he gives us everything we need.
As babies grow into toddlerhood and beyond, they exert more independence. Without realizing it, they are demonstrating a lack of trust in their parents. Maybe their own way is best now? The struggle is real.
This struggle is real for us, too, isn’t it? We forget – or maybe choose to not consider – that God can be fully trusted. Period.
God proves himself time and again. He never lets us down, although we are sometimes clouded by our selfish nature and our skewed perspective.
We can trust God with our whole being in this life he gives us. He wants us to trust him with guiding our choices and taking our anxious thoughts. To God we can recall, “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you” (Isaiah 26:3 ESV).
If God were not trustworthy, then how could we surrender to him? If he were fickle, ignoble, dishonest, or ineffective, it would seem unwise to trust him. However, those attributes do not define the God we serve! We can read the historical accounts found in the Bible and in Christians through the ages. What about in your own life? Have you taken stock of how God has proven himself trustworthy to you? May we, like Peter and John, be able to say, “As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20 NIV).
Putting our full trust in God paves the way for our will to bend to his and for our thoughts, words, and deeds to align with his.
May we trust that God knows best and may we rest in his care.
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