Learning to Trust
Whether You’re blessing or whether You’re testing, by faith, I’ll still trust You. Though the world falls around me, Lord, Your Word is still true!” (from the song “Lord, Your Word is Still True” as sung by the Kingdom Heirs)
I think trust is sometimes the hardest thing for people, even those who say they are Believers. We like to be in control, to have a 5-year plan, to know what we’re doing but there are many things we can’t control, no matter how much we wish we could.
When a child’s sick, we’d do anything to relieve his suffering. When the economy’s bad, we’d love to turn it around. There is One who is in control even when we’re not and it’s Him we need to cling to.
I think pride is often the reason we don’t like to relinquish control but Scripture says “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). Maybe that’s why those who learn that place of complete trust and surrender come into that place of peace when the rest of the world is in turmoil.
I’m learning that trust and surrender is a practice. It’s not something that necessarily comes automatically but the more you hit that place of saying, “I may not always understand Your ways, Lord, but I do trust You,” the easier it becomes and the more we become a trusting people. I pray we can all get to that place so that no matter what’s going on around us, we can say with Job, “Though He slay me, yet I will trust Him” (Job 13:15).
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