Why is trusting God so difficult?
The Bible says this about trusting God, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5) it also tells us that "He who trusts in himself is a fool. . ." (Proverbs 28:26). Yet, most of us have difficulty trusting God at least at one point or another in our walk with Him.
I know there are many reasons why trusting God is so difficult. Gods ways don’t always make sense to us! For instance….God told Noah to build an ark. There may have never been rain there before, there my not have even been any great body of water any where near by! It probably didn't make sense to Noah at that time. We tend to want life to make sense, and we want it set on our own terms and timetables.
God works in his own time, and his time might not make sense in our minds, but......God promised Abraham a son through Him and his wife Sarah’s own body’s. However, it was a long wait! A lot of years pased before Gods promise was fulfilled! In the meantime Abraham and Sarah lost there trust in Him and tried various ways to make this promise come true. “ We want what we want, and we want it …..NOW!” it is really hard to trust in a plan that requires us to surrender all control of time and completion.
In order to trust God we must totally surrender our will, our ideas, our desires, and our future into “Gods hands.” Many of us are “control freaks!” I know I am! We want to be” in the drivers seat” and leave God in to ride in the Passengers seat. We don’t want to let God take the wheel.
“If you don't believe that God loves you fully and really does have your best interests at heart and desires the very best for you, than trusting Him is going to be extremely difficult! It takes a very special relationship to allow that measure of surrender. Most of us have a tendency to claim trust in God. However, at the first sign of any difficulty or trial, we think that God must not love us because He is allowing this difficulty to happen. The trial is exactly what God is using to test the level of trust that we have in Him.” - unknown
In spit of the trials, we always have Gods promises that the trials and tests that we go through in life are only for our good in (Romans 8:28, Hebrews 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:17, and James 1:2).“We learn that it is through trust that our relationship with God strengthens and our love for Him grows.” - unknown
All of the other things in which we place our trust can fail. God never fails! In the words of King David, ". . .Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, MY God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. . ." (1 Chronicles 28:20).
Blessings <3
Dear Rose,
ReplyDeleteI have been reading your blog for a few weeks but this is my first time commenting. I've followed your sister and mother's blog for a few years an popped over here when your Mother wrote a post about your blog.
I have to tell you how much your posts touch me. I'm probably about two decades older than you but these struggles with faith never seem to change. I have gone through periods of spiritual highs like you mentioned you experienced after your experience in Africa. Also, I can go through periods of spiritual dryness which causes me to feel depressed and yearn for the peace of the Lord.
I want to share with you something a friend wrote yesterday... she said that the peace of the Lord is always there-- we don't need to create it, we merely need to uncover it. It's under all the stress and emotions and the layers of all our feelings.. it's always there. That really inspired me and reminded me of that important truth-- the peace is there for me to find anytime I want to (even though it's harder at times than easier).
Anyway, you are a very wise and beautiful young woman and I adore your blog.
-Elizabeth
Dear Elizabeth, I really should have responded to your comment months and months ago, but as I am still learning what it is to be a good blogger, I didn't know whether to comment back to you are not. Anyways, I'm sorry for taking so long, Would you please forgive me? Thank you SO SO much for your words of encouragement! At that time it was such a blessing to me to read your comment. And even now when I read it I am blessed over and over again. Thank you, thank you in all sincerity!
Delete- Rose