Will I Trust? – Devotional. Responding and Remaining now calls for Trusting!
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Perhaps this Scripture is one of the most familiar and often quoted in the book of Proverbs. We recite it with full hearts and good intentions. Yet when we choose to remain with the Shepherd, there will be moments when He leads us into places of uncertainty-where outcomes are hidden and the way forward is unclear. This is where faith matures.
Will I trust God when I cannot see where He is leading?
Trust is where control loosens from those things we hold so tightly with a closed hand, and dependence becomes real. Suddenly, we realize that trust is not about a feeling or being confident in ‘the plan’. We realize that trust is: staying and remaining with the Shepherd when you do not know the next step. It is obeying without any explanation. Sometimes it is about continuing forward without any reassurances.
Trust is choosing God’s heart when His path is still hidden. Trust is obedience that continues even when clarity does not.
We often feel the need to understand everything before we step out in trust. As I look over my own life, I can clearly see seasons when I struggled deeply-wanting answers before I was willing to place my surrender in God’s hands. The desire to understand can be strong, and perhaps often what we offer is only a partial surrender. But trust calls for full-hearted dependence. It is a full surrender of the heart -all of the heart.
The word translated “trust” in verse 5 carries the meaning “to lie helpless, facedown.” It is the picture of a servant waiting for the master’s command in readiness to obey, or a defeated soldier yielding himself to the conquering general. Warren Wiersbe describes this kind of trust as a full surrender, not partial dependence.
Now we must move from trusting and believing, to trusting in motion.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will act. Psalm 37:5
Trust is not a passive action. Trust commits to the Lord, releases self-control, and then waits.
The Proverbs scriptures call us to release and let go of our need to figure it all out and understand. And in Psalm 37, we are placing the totality of our life, our being, our outcomes fully into God’s hands.
There are times when we are simply in seasons of waiting, uncertainty, disappointment, or doing the “right things” without fruitfulness. These are times when we are tempted to grasp for clarity instead of peace and direction from the Shepherd. We turn to our limited understanding instead of committing our way and trusting.
Friend, have you found yourself in this place? What would it look like for you to release control and trust God to act? He promises to do so.
God has spoken Grace to you. You have chosen well to respond and to remain.
Oh that we would learn to trust Him more!
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