Do you trust God?

One of the easiest things for a human being to do should be the act of trusting God.

Think about it, God cannot lie, always acts in love (which means He acts in our best interest), and He has a long track record of perfectly keeping His promises.

Trusting imperfect people can be difficult — for good reason! — but when it comes to trusting God, we can learn a lesson from this story …

A German botanist traveling in Turkey saw a rare flower hanging from an inaccessible precipice. He offered ten piastres, then twenty, then half-a-sovereign, and, finally, one pound, to a tempted but hesitating boy, if he would be slung over with a rope and cut the plant. The boy, struck with a new thought, said, “Wait a moment, and I will go for my father to come and hold the rope; then I will willingly go down and get it.”

If there is anyone we should fully and happily entrust our whole lives to, it is our heavenly Father! Trusting God with our lives the same way the boy in the story wholeheartedly trusted in his father has real impact on our lives! It frees us from fear, and worry, and anxiety, and gives us hope for a future.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding,” Proverbs 3:5.

“The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving,” Psalm 28:7.

“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!” Isaiah 26:3.

“Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you,” Psalm 37:5.

“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit,” Jeremiah 17:7-8.

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me,” John 14:1.

Do you trust God? How might it impact your life if you started each day actively placing your trust in God for your life that day?

Scotty