Trust

Trust in the Lord.

With all your heart.

Do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways.

Acknowledge Him.

He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6

 

We know these words. But what does this look like day in and day out? Is it really possible? What is the outcome?

People place their trust in many things. Money. Security. Strength. Wisdom. Success. Themselves. The problem with placing our trust in money, is that it is here today and gone tomorrow. The problem with trusting security is that we are really trusting temporal things to protect us. Whose strength are we relying on? Our own? Whose wisdom? Whose measure of success? When we trust in any of these things we end up really offering our allegiance (and prayers?!) to things which cannot answer our deepest needs and most heartfelt cries.

But if we trust the Lord. He is eternal. He is all-knowing. He is sinless. He is perfect. He is good. He is love. And He does all things without ever failing. After all the Bible tells us Love never fails.

So what does it look like to trust the Lord with all your heart? It means letting Him handle your emotions, intellect and will regarding all things. He already has the future and every circumstance in His hands. What He wants though is your heart, your love, your trust, your obedience.

And when you put it all in His hands. He will give you peace. And therefore, moment by moment as your surrender your personal, fallible, human, and temporal emotive, intellectual and will-full ideas, attitudes, actions and reactions into His hands, the only thing that is left in you is…the eternal. God places in us the eternal: His eternal Spirit, the never fading, never passing away fruits of His Spirit, and His never-ending joy and peace.

Oh yeah, and when you trust Him completely and receive all that He offers you, what you will see in front of you is one illuminated step, which will be along the path of righteousness. He will make your paths straight and will remind you “this is the way, walk in it” when you trust Him. And what glory He will receive and you will see when you trust this way. It is possible. Trust. God.

Lord, help me trust and rest in You, now and forevermore, AMEN!