Trust has to do with
the unknown. If you know the outcome, even if it’s bad, the trust factor goes
down and the human control factor goes up. If we can control the results then
there is no need to trust God.
Trust is not easily
earned. We trust people we can, well...trust. If someone blows it then they
have to earn our trust back. With God He has proven Himself from the beginning
of time that He can be trusted. And He can be trusted with everything.
God places us in
circumstances that we absolutely cannot control so that we will learn to trust
Him completely. This doesn’t mean we don’t do anything. God doesn’t call us to
sit in our lazy boy to wait for Him. He calls us to get on our knees, pour out
our hearts to Him, and wait for Him to act. Waiting is the tough part for us.
Waiting can drive us insane, but it is what God calls us to. Here’s the sage
and sound advice from Solomon,
“Trust
in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In
all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
(Proverbs 3:5-6)
We know those verses
so well that we gloss over them and don’t allow the simple truth of trust to
sink in. Let me help us do just that…
The placement of our
trust is in the LORD. He is the sovereign of the universe, and since He indeed was
able to create the world, He is able to superintend the daily affairs of our
lives as well. We are told to place all of our trust in Him (“with all your heart”). Nothing is to be
kept back in reserve for self, somebody else, or something else (“lean not on your own understanding”).
Having a reserve of trust apart from God reveals a lack of trust in God. Why
can’t we learn this lesson? Pride? Weakness?
The promise to those
who trust in God is a straight path. What he means by a straight path is that
God promises to bring something to its appointed goal. God is not arbitrary; He
has a master plan, and those who put their trust in Him will receive the faith,
guidance, courage and peace needed to get to His goal for their lives. Notice
he did not say it would be a pain free path, or an easy path, or a get your own
way path. It is a path that we can navigate with God’s helping hand. It is a
path that moves in a trajectory that pleases God and brings joy to our lives.
What unknown
circumstance do you face today? Allow that to press you into God, not push you
away from Him. Trust Him, He’ll get you where He wants you to go.
Grace & Peace,
Scott
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