trust

When Vergil & I got married, we chose a passage from Matthew about not worrying; about trusting God for our needs. We come back to that verse often when we're in stressful times. It reminds us that God is in control and that we can count on him to take care of us.

Today's passage is from Jeremiah 17:5-8 and it reminds us of the same thing. If we only trust in ourselves, we will never see relief when troubled times come. If we refuse to look to God, the 'drought' or the desert will seem to last forever. However, if we rely on God and trust him, we will prosper. We will be like trees planted near water that never worries about droughts.

I need that reminder all the time. My trust is in God who orders all things for good. That's not to say I will never experience hard times. It's not to imply that nothing bad will ever happen to me. My trust in God goes beyond my experiences here in this world. It has to because sin always marrs goodness. My trust in God has to go all the way to heaven when God will make everything right. Then I'll experience true justice. Then I'll experience true peace. Then I'll experience complete belonging.

Some days its hard to trust. Some days I find it extremely difficult to believe that anything good can come from the crap situations I find myself and my friends in. But I don't trust God in the vain hope that things will be made right in this life. I trust him to make things right in the next.

In the meantime, I have to choose every day to trust him with all the little things. That's often harder than trusting him with the big stuff. The big stuff is overwhelming - I don't want to keep those worries for myself. The little stuff I always try to convince myself I can manage on my own. But in the end, I need to trust God with that too.

What do you need to learn to trust God with?