Round 2 of this series, and I’m just jumping into it. By the title, you know what we’re chatting about. It’s laughable that I get to talk about trusting God. It’s still an area of my life that I am developing, but it’s way too important to not include in this series. The more I began to walk in trusting God, the more I see that it is a gift from God. Daily we have the opportunity to trust God, take off our cares, and place them onto him. The Enthused Life is about going deeper in God and enjoying the process. There will be times that require you to walk on water, be tested, and challenged. It is for our gain to give what we can’t handle in the process over to him so that we can be focused on establishing the will of God and not what is opposing it. Step 2: Get used to trusting God.
The nature of trusting God. When writing this post, I wanted to share something heavy and thought-provoking, but I kept hitting this wall. I believe it’s because God doesn’t want the idea of trust to be heavy and thought-provoking but a simple act of our will. We should reach a point where trusting God becomes our first option and not our last. The idea can be so hard to wrap our heads around because it not our nature just to give our trust away – unless you’re an infant. As God calls us to trust him, he challenges that nature to put on a new nature. A nature that acknowledges who he is and what he has done. It who he is and what he’s done that makes him worthy of our trust AND the Savior that rescues us from our deepest worries.
Trusting God is an invitation. God want’s to be apart of every detail of your life. When you trust him with whatever, he transitions from “want” to “welcomed”. Trusting God invites him to rule over whatever circumstance and make the decisions. As an act of your will, you have surrendered your control and decided to move with whatever outcome God allows. This is a victory in itself and the epitome of leaning not on your own understanding. God may not move on what has not been given to him. Acknowledge him in your situation and invite Him in.
Start in the simple seasons. The thing about trusting God is that we feel we have to be placed in uncomfortable positions to experience what it is to trust God. Just consider we get to trust God when we can’t pay our bills or when we’ve reached the promotion at work that pushes us out of our comfort zone. But, I don’t believe we have to wait until something intimidating or unfortunate happens; there are more opportunities than this. Just consider we get to trust God when we can’t pay our bills and when we have reached the promotion at work that pushes us out of our comfort zone. We should get into practice by trusting him in our daily situations. Where I started was work. When I encounter a situation, I’m uncertain about I voice that I need the Holy Spirit for answers. When I get lost on the way home, and my GPS is glitching, I literally express that I need the Holy Spirit to get home. It sounds wild, but I am making and exchange of my anxiety and fear for his peace. This is where you begin and expound from there.
There is a Psalm that I found so comforting to apply to trust in God. Psalm 119:91. If nothing else resonates with you, meditate on the truth that ALL things serve the plan of God. You can trust him to be he has a plan and your circumstance that seems so complicated, so nerve-wracking, so impossible is serving His plan. There is no reason to be tied down in worry and fear when you serve that God that all things must submit to.
Your eternal word, O Lord, stands firm in heaven. Your faithfulness extends to every generation, as enduring as the earth you created. Your regulations remain true to this day, for everything serves your plans. Psalm 119:91
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