Trust…

How many of you cringed when you read that title? I know I had an emotional reaction to it this morning. It went a little like “Uh-Oh, really?!?!”

I want you to take a moment and ask yourself, do you trust God? Really trust Him? Do you believe His Word? Do you believe His promises? Do you believe He will come through for you when you need Him the most? Or do you believe you will need to handle things yourself?

My marriage has been a walk of trust. God told me before we got married these 5 things… he is your husband, he isn’t ready, he WILL overcome, I will have to break him and you will have to walk by his side while I do. We have been married 6 and a half years and I have stood on these. Even though what I have seen during our marriage makes me question him overcoming. After about 8 months of being married, a very difficult time during our marriage, I pleaded to God to confirm what he said, that he would overcome. I remember driving to work one morning, PLEADING to God to tell me it would be true, tears running down my face, I NEEDED to know I could stand on that promise. That I could endure all of what it would take to break him. Then, this sweet whisper that I heard deep inside my spirit, this whisper so full of hope and peace confirmed that my husband would overcome. I have been immovable since. I can’t say it has been easy and I haven’t had moments of doubt, I have definitely had those moments. But I have never let go of that promise. God said it, so it must be true. The enemy has attacked this, the onslaught has been relentless, unforgiving and gets more intense with each backslide. God has shown up so many times throughout this season in my life. He has provided everything I have needed, the money for hotel rooms, people to help when I needed them the most, scriptures of encouragement, glimpses into what my husband will be when God has completed His work, I can go on and on. God has used this to build a sense of trust in me that you can’t tell me God won’t be there in all things. Through this, I have been mad at God. I’ve felt abandoned by God. I have felt punished by God. I have been hopeless. I have been without peace. I have been without joy. But God in His infinite love has met me in each one of those places and has used them to draw me closer to Him, to trust Him more fully. I’m still waiting on my promise to be fulfilled, but my husband will overcome. And God is teaching me through all of this as well. He is revealing the areas in me that need to be refined. I’m not enjoying it, but I look forward to God completing the good work He has started in both me and my husband.

God will use difficult circumstances in our lives to teach us to trust Him. Circumstances that seem bleak, hopeless, impossible. But, if we open to seeking Him, He can teach us. Please know…this is the warning label…it is difficult when God is the teacher. But what is built through Him, is worth more than anything this world can ever offer you. Imagine a life built on truly trusting God in all things. See the joy and peace that you can take back from the world that had stolen it. Who or what can come against you? An all-powerful, loving God who desires to spend eternity with you is standing in between you and the world…you need only be still.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. – Psalm 32:8

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. – Psalm 9:10

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. – Psalm 28:7

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. – Philippians 1:6

So, do you desire to trust God? Stop handling things yourself? Will you allow Him to show you He can be trusted? Are you willing to walk through those difficult times to have that built in you? Or do you want to rely on yourself? Your abilities? Your wisdom? Do you want to trust the world to teach you?