Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
For the past few weeks, I have been looking over the understanding of trust. Such a small and simple word. “I trust you, do you trust me?” Trust in the dictionary have a few different definitions:
1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
3. confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
4.a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.
5. the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
We need trust. It doesn’t matter what the problem is, trust is something that we look for to have a hope, confidence, and/or strength to make it through something. Thankfully, we have a faithful God who is open for us to trust IN Him whenever that time may be.
Throughout the Bible, we can see how much trusting in the Lord is so extremely important. Trusting in the promise Christ gave us, and trusting in our Father’s plan for us is so amazing. He is the creator over every SINGLE thing, He keeps the smallest bugs living, to keeping the brilliant sun above the sky, why would He NOT take care of your when He created you after His own image?
In this Proverbs verse, trust can translate to the word of dwell. Dwell in the Lord, reside in Him completely, stay ‘at home’ in Him, totally, completely, with all that you are. However, this does not give us the right to trust in the Lord to complete our desires…because simply He will do whatever He has planned, not what you have in mind for Him to do. (Side note - we do need to pray for things; if in His plan then He will grace us. But we must always pray for His will and plan to be done!) We must release our desires to be in control, or even not understand everything that is happening to us, rather, to dwell in the One who does.
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
Proverbs 3:6
Stress has overcome my life lately; I have taken my trust from Him into myself, which caused more stress. In the past few days have I realized what I was doing and just wanted to trust in Him because I know I am secure in Him forever. No matter what happens to me, I know trusting in Him is so much better than trusting in myself.
"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower."
Psalm 18:2
The Lord is faithful, patience, loving; merciful towards us. I just cannot be more thankful to have a God that when we trust in Him, He will supply our every need and take care of us according to His will. He is my refuge, He is my fortress, and in Him will I trust. (Psalm 91:2)
Trust is such a powerful thing. Trust in the Lord, and He will lead you into the truth.
