The phrase “trusting in God” involves having complete confidence in God’s power, plan, and provision, despite our circumstances.
Proverbs 28: 25b-26: “But the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched. Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.”
While waiting in Urgent Care for almost three hours one day this week, due to a work accident my husband had (which required seven stitches in his one finger), reminded me of a devotional I wrote about in my book, “Developing a Heavenly Mind Control. Devotional Thoughts to Reboot Our Minds With Truth.” Steve’s incident brought back a vivid memory that our daughter went through with their son, having a similar accident in 2014. Here is an excerpt from my book with the chapter title: “Trusting”:
“Our four-year-old grandson, Tate, recently had a serious accident that involved him possibly losing his fingernail on one of his little fingers on his left hand. It was an extremely painful incident. Our daughter Amy was putting on the new gauze and taping it one evening, and she said to him as he started to be afraid: “Tate, you have to trust mom! Hold your finger up straight, and I will fix this. You have to trust me! I am not going to hurt you. I am here to take care of you. You have to trust mom.”
Amy’s purpose of redoing the gauze taped bandage was to help keep the fingernail from getting an infection and to protect and cushion the wound. What a verbal picture this was to me of how much God loves me and doesn’t want to hurt me while I am going through any trial. I have only to trust God, just as Tate had to trust his mother to take good care of his injury. God is there to protect and guard me and help me and will provide His clean and new bandage of keeping my life safe from harm while undergoing any trial. I have to trust Him and have faith that He is working everything out for my good, as it says in Romans 8:28, as I take refuge in my Lord. What a picture this was to me and so simple but so profound!
My grandson had to gather up all of his courage to simply trust in my daughter’s love and care for him and know that she was not going to hurt him. He would follow her instruction in taking in a deep breath slowly and then exhaling slowly to get him to calm down and relax. Our cleansing breath comes from breathing in God’s promises for us to trust Him, and then exhaling with His peace flooding our souls.”
Emotions can hold us captive. Here are six verses on responding with trust in God:
- Psalm 20:7: “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
- Psalm 56:3: “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”
- Psalm 62:8: “Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.”
- Proverbs 3:5: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
- Proverbs 28:26: “Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.”
- Isaiah 40:31 HCSB: “But they who trust in the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.”
Our LORD is saying “Trust me!” “. . . So put your trust in the LORD (Psalm 4:5b).”
What is going on in your life right now where you need to have more trust that God has this?
Sometimes it takes work to exercise our faith. Sometimes it takes a great deal of effort to simply wait in His presence in anticipation of an outcome when a trial hits. That is why I write down answers to prayers on a card and put them in my “To: Linda. From: God” gift box that I have sitting on my mantle in our living room. Reviewing past answers to prayers does help reboot my mind to bring back memories of how God has rescued, blessed, answered, provided, and protected, me in the past.
Our Pastor Todd said great words of wisdom to me one time, at a critical time in our life: “Every trial has an ending.”
May you have “passionate patience” as you put your trust in God today. Be on the alert for whatever God will do next (Romans 3:3-5 MSG).
God is saying: “Trust Me.”
Listen to “Already There” by Casting Crowns.