Total Trust

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.

What does it really mean to trust in the Lord?  How do we know from day to day our needs will be met?  Do you struggle with making sense of storms in your life?  Can you truly say you trust God?  I know, tough questions, yet the answer is so simple: YES God is in control and asking about trust when it comes to God should be a no brainer, but the flesh in all of us sees the world and have our doubts.  A few years back I would have to honestly say, my trust in the Lord was weak, sure I trusted Him as in the first defintion…I relied on Him and then the second I had hope and I also knew I had a place in Heaven as the third one indicates.  However, that last one, well, I did more relying on me, not God for awhile. What are we afraid of?

I think I was afraid of letting go because I was the one who had gotten myself into the mess I was in and why would God want to just pull me out if I had not learned my lesson? Well, in reality the lesson was two-fold.  First, I needed to pinch myself and see that I was flesh and capable of making mistakes which meant I needed some forgiveness of myself.  Secondly I needed to learn just how much God really loved me and if He went back to get the one lost sheep, surely He was looking for me.  At the end of my 18 years of wandering around in the desert, I was becoming desperate and in that time of desperation, I needed to trust in God or things may have just stayed as they were.  Some are led to wonder why God would leave me in such a situation for so long but it was not God being unfaithful, it was me being unwilling to trust.

Having faith is the first step to trust.  If you have no faith in God to do the things in your life which need to be dealt with, how can there be trust?  Hope in God is the key.  Faith is Hope and Hope is believing in the unseen, God.  We some how have to get from point A, worldy principles, to point B, complete trust in God without any hesitation.  Take for instance my situation with my husband, God was there the entire time waiting for me to trust Him enough to take me out of the disaster I was in.  Nope, I refused to let Him take care of me for some odd reason and for 18 years I wandered in the desert holding on to life and not letting God be in control.  I did not trust God enough to let go, I thought I had all the answers.

In recent times I am taking less time to realize the need for trusting God in all situations.  As I am letting go and trusting in Him, God is moving faster than ever in my life.  I truly can say I trust God with all that I am now.  He moves in me.  He directs me daily.  He corrects me when needed.  I trust Him now for everything.  He is providing a way for me to have my teeth fixed when I saw no way, yet once I laid it down before Him, an answer arose.  I trust the Lord will do the same exact thing about finding me a new home to live in.  It states also in the Bible that God gives us the desires of our hearts and I am just waiting to see what God will do next.

I encourage you to examine the word trust and apply it wisely to your own lives.  He is waiting for that complete trust in Him so He can actively work in your life.  Trust and obey are the two simple things God asks of us.  Trust Him first in the little things if you are a bit nervous to let things go, but I promise you within a very short period of time, you will have total trust in God, your Provider.