I Find Trusting God is Difficult. Pt. 2

Last week we talked about how learning to trust God was dependent on having a relationship with Him. We talked about meditatively reading the Bible and talking to Him through prayer. We even said it is OK to be angry at God and yell at Him because after all that yelling is still prayer. But knowing about God, knowing His commandments, and life directions, is not the same as having a personal relationship with Him. I am assuming in these pages that you, the reader, already have had a salvific experience with Jesus. If not, please contact me through Comments. I will get back to you and we will have a completely private conversation about accepting Jesus as your Savior.

When the conversation turns to trusting God, people often stumble over the things that happen in this world. They often say, “How could God let this happen to me?” It is important to understand that God is not the author of every event, but he certainly is the master of every event. Satan tries to do things to push each of God’s children away from Him; God will use the same circumstance to draw His Children closer to Him. We have to trust that whatever happens has happened for a reason and that God’s will for us and love for us is such that whatever the end result was, we trust Him completely.  Certainly, we don’t feel like it’s for OUR best interests when something awful happens but we must look beyond what we want and trust that God is all-knowing and all-seeing, and He will absolutely make the right decisions at the right time. He is omnipotent and I trust Him...after all, aren’t we all trusting Him with our very soul? And let consider this....what else can you do besides trust God? There is no other option.

The believing life is not a quiet escape to a garden where we can walk and talk uninterruptedly with our Lord; nor a fantasy trip to a heavenly city where we can compare blue ribbons and gold medals with others who have made it to the winners’ circle.… The believing life is going to God.  In going to God believers travel the same ground that everyone else walks on, breathe the same air, drink the same water, shop in the same stores, read the same newspapers, are citizens under the same governments, pay the same prices for groceries and gasoline, fear the same dangers, are subject to the same pressures, get the same distresses, are buried in the same ground.  The difference is that each step we walk, each breath we breathe, we know we are preserved by God, we know we are accompanied by God, we know we are ruled by God; and therefore no matter what doubts we endure or what accidents we experience, the Lord will preserve us from evil, he will keep our life (reference available).

So remember this: We who are believers are still impacted by the pressures of the world, still weak in the face of confrontation, and still suffer from occasional doubt. But our ally in struggle is God; we can choose to turn toward Him for respite.

Next week we’ll start talking about how to learn to trust God.