Trust

            Trust 

noun \ˈtrəst\

Full Definition of trust

1.  Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something

2.  One in which confidence is placed

3.  Dependence on something future or contingent :  hope

Webster's Dictionary defines trust as "Assured reliance on the CHARACTER, ABILITY, strength or TRUTH of SOMEONE or SOMETHING. 

One in which confidence is placed: HOPE.

This page contains 47 Bible verses about trust. 

We trust complete strangers, daily, to stay in their lane while driving on the highway, to not rob us when they come in to pay, to take care of our kids at school. We walk by over 100 strangers daily and trust that they aren't going to stick their foot out and trip us. We place daily, confident, trust in men. We trust our mechanics to fix our cars, our grocers to pick the best quality foods, our doctors to fix us, our bankers to take care of our money and our government to take care of us.

Why then, if we trust all these complete and total strangers, every single day of our lives, is it so hard to put trust in the one who created us? The one who loves us with no conditions, the one who has promised to provide for us and keep us alive and well? 

We establish trust with complete strangers in relationships. We start dating someone, we open up and tell them every little detail about our lives, we trust that they will be good people, we trust them to keep our secrets. We trust them with our hearts, we fall in love, we trust them to keep their promises, to keep our hearts. We trust the mess out of people. PEOPLE. humans. flawed beings. But we can't trust even for a full day that the GOD who CREATED US will bring us the right job, will help us figure out how to pay the bills, will bring us the right people, relationships, friends into our lives. We can't trust that the one who is Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, goes before us and behind us, knows all the hairs on our heads and every grain of sand in the ocean has the ability to provide every single need. He knows us better then we know ourselves. He knows what we need better then we do. Why? BECAUSE HE MADE US. He knows why he is taking me down this dreadful path of heartache I've been on. But he also knows I have stayed faithful in persecution, faithful in the bad. I have praised him in the storm.

My life was turned upside down 3 years ago to the day. I trusted someone with every ounce of it I had. and that trust was shattered. Part of trust is forgiveness. But that's a post for a different day. As flawed beings, we have to learn to trust in God over man. It's hard. It's hard to not try to figure it all out on my own. It's hard to just hand it all over and say "OK God, it's in your hands." Some days I don't feel like he's there. But I am learning that just because He is quiet, doesn't mean He isn't there. He has provided my every single need the last 3 years. Maybe it's time I be quiet and just listen to what He has to say. Recently I had to make a very tough decision (And if not, he is still good.). But I genuinely believe, that once I just shut up and let God talk to me, that I knew what the right decision was, and I am confident in it. I have been trying to run my own life for far too long. My divorce should have been a turning point, and for a moment it was. But I started trying to figure everything out my own, in my own time, and lo and behold, that didn't work out for me, and left a lot of heartache in the wake. 

So, Trust I must learn, trust I must do.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans." Proverbs 16:3

"When I am afraid, I put my trust in you." Psalm 56:3 

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us." 1 John 5:14

"But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." James 1:6

"He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber." Psalm 121:3

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"Matthew 6:26 

"For we live by faith, not by sight." 2 Corinthians 5:7

"My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge." Psalm 62:7

Well, you guys get the point. All my salvation and honor, depend on God. My life depends on God. Am I not more important that the birds?

To live by faith and not by sight. That is my goal. There is nothing I want more than to serve God with an open heart and an open mind- to go where he wants to send me, to stay when he wants me to stay.

But to do all of that, first I have to learn to trust.