What does it mean to trust God? What does trust look like? As Christians, our very faith is completely based off of the fact that we trust something we cannot see. The ability to trust someone or something is always a challenge: trust is never gained over night- it has to be earned. I didn’t trust Jacob, my husband, as soon as I met him. I didn’t believe that he would be faithful to me or love me forever; he had to earn my trust. He spent four years before we were married doing just that, and he has not broken that trust. Is he perfect and never made any mistakes? No, and the same can be said for me. But I trust him completely and can take him at his word.
Even more than that we serve a God who has proved Himself faithful and trustworthy time and time again. He is perfect and He has never made a mistake. In my life He has always been the one who follows through, even when I do not. And it’s not just my life- I have friends and family who can attest to the same thing, and a Bible full of pages proclaiming the faithfulness and trustworthiness of God! So why at times do I find it so easy to trust my husband and so hard to trust God? In my head I can 100% of the time say that God is faithful, but sometimes my heart wants to doubt.
Enter Satan: our greatest adversary. He is scheming, cunning, and powerful. He hates me, he hates my family, he hates my marriage and he hates God. He will use anything and everything, even my children, to get me to doubt God and not trust His character. Nothing could hurt the heart of our Father more than His children not trusting Him.
This series had been impressed upon my heart because they are very real topics that I have walked through and struggled with. The revelations I have had are just that: revelations. They are not just pat answers to questions that I read in a book somewhere, but real circumstances that the Lord has had me walk through so that I will grow in Him. Learning to trust God is an ongoing journey, but one that I hope and pray I will grow better at the further I go in Him.
