As humans we need to be able to trust. Trust our parents that they are going to provide for us. Trust our friends that they won’t share our deep secrets. But most importantly, we need to trust God. Through thick and thin God is with us, he hasn’t made a mistake.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,
Plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
Plans to give you a hope and a future.”
~Jeremiah 29:11
In the end, no matter what happens, God’s will, will be done, and knowing that and believing that will help us get through the difficult parts of our lives. Trust has to start somewhere. You need to trust people, if you don’t, you will put yourself in a bubble- not willing to share or experience anything. Even though trust is important, it is a very fragile thing. It just takes one secret to pop out, or one word to be spoken by a friend. An action, or in some cases no action at all, before you are reeling back your trust. Limiting others access to you, and limiting yourself to the world.
Parents need to be able to trust their children that they will obey their authority, and we need to be able to be able to trust our parents that they are going to make the right discussions. The only being that doesn’t need to trust anybody is God, if He needed to trust us to prosper, He wouldn’t be as powerful and glorified, and he wouldn’t be perfect. There is a quote that says,
“God is good all the time,
and all the time, God is good.”
~Pastor Dave (from “God’s not Dead”)
We need to be able to trust that God isn’t going to forget us in our misery, our hurt, and in our suffering. One mistake that I think as Christians we all make is that when things are going well and it’s “perfect” we, most often than not, don’t turn to God and thank Him and ask Him to bless us and to keep us safe, and trust Him with the future.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways submit to Him,
And He will make your paths straight.”
~Proverbs 3:5-6
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