If Trusting God Came With Instructions...

I was listening to Joyce Meyer one morning this week and she encouraged everyone to find out what God is really dealing with them on and dedicate themselves to working on it and getting to the other side of it. Mine is trusting God. It’s like I’ve got this baseline trust, but not being totally informed tends to be a source of contention. For this reason, many of us believers tend to be “Indian givers” with our lives [when it comes to God]. We put them in His hands, but continue to attend to them and, in some cases, take them back when we do not understand what He is doing. While reflecting on her suggestion, I thought to myself that if trusting God was as simple as following step-by-step instructions, most of us would follow them to a “T.” Then it dawned on me that the Word actually does instruct us. Proverbs 3:5-6 (AMP) says:

“Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.”

In essence, we must remove ourselves from the equation and give God full custody of every component of our lives. Coupled with faith, trust is the proverbial “shortest distance between two points”…us and God. EVERYTHING must be surrendered, including our preconceived notions, our timetables, our specifications, our plans, etc. But ultimately, it’s really not about trusting Him for the stuff being handed over…it’s about becoming more acquainted with the One you are handing it to.

It is who God is that makes trusting Him a win-win situation. This world belongs to Him and everything in it is subject to His authority. He runs the show, yet He has a vested interest in those of us who have a desire to live for Him. At the core of every move He makes is an unparalleled love for us. Each of our lives is like His factory, each product manufactured reflecting His glory, durability withstanding. Only He knows the inputs and process flows necessary to produce the optimal results…all He asks is that we seek to know Him and pursue His ways (Matt. 6:33). His character is one that must be experienced as it is too comprehensive to relay. But if we follow His instructions exactly, we will find that He is most definitely One that we can “lean on, trust in, and be confident in” with all of our hearts and minds.