Trust

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.  —Proverbs 3:5

I’ve often told my girls, “Trust me” when they’ve struggled with various things.  During the years we homeschooled, often I would have to convince one of them that I was explaining how to do a particular piece of homework correctly.  When they learned to ride bikes, they knew I would eventually let go of the seat as I was helping balance, but I would have to remind them to trust me to let it go when the time was right.  When I’ve offered advice, I have to remind them to trust that I understand their feelings because I’ve been through the same teen or tween problems.  

This is so parallel to the way we are with God.  He knows all our struggles, all our doubts, all the things that tempt us to do something we shouldn’t.  He’s dealt with all these things Himself.  Yet we still question.  We still wonder if we should just solve our problems our own way on our own time.  We still turn around to see if He’s holding onto the bike seat, so to speak.  

God is saying to us, “Just trust me!”  He doesn’t expect us to understand His ways.  Scripture tells us His ways are not our ways.  Just like we don’t always expect our children to understand our reasoning, we may not always know why God is telling us to do something.  He simply expects us to listen and obey, much like we expect of our kids. 

Let’s pray for better trust, and not just with the little things, but with all our heart.  That means every area of our lives, the major and the minor.  He cares about all of it.