It’s been something of a struggle. Trusting God in the midst of our daily walk when things are NOT going the way we pray or hope or want. This makes me take a closer look at TRUST in general…Can we really trust God to handle all the details? It doesn’t look like He’s doing much at times so how do we keep trusting Him? We know he is CAPABLE but WILL he come through for us?

I think back over instances where I just ‘knew’ you, Lord, would rescue me from a situation. You didn’t. It makes me uneasy with the trust question. Do I trust you could have rescued me? Yes. But you didn’t. So it makes me say I don’t know if I can trust you to save me from a situation. You CAN but WILL you?
I don’t know why you didn’t rescue me from certain things….you did rescue me from some situations, but not others. So in my human mind, it says I can’t trust you to swoop in for a rescue mission every time since you haven’t in the past. In a deeper thought…because I wasn’t rescued doesn’t mean you didn’t pay attention or didn’t care. It means for whatever reason, usually one I don’t personally like, you chose to not rescue me. This is where many people get trapped with their faith. How can someone who professes to love me let me suffer? Let me go thru bad situations? If you love me, you’d rescue me.

WAIT
This is what we see from our perspective. But there is a bigger picture here we don’t see. Frankly when we’re in this mess, we don’t care to see it. We just want out. I think of examples with my own children. They are in a situation that is bad…either of their own making or it just worked out that way. They want me to fix this. But if I swoop in and fix the situation, they never learn how to deal with it on their own or how to look at alternatives or how to maneuver thru struggle. We call this ‘tough love’ sometimes.

Maybe this is what is at hand when you don’t rescue us from a situation. We don’t care about learning some lesson or making ourselves more resilient, we just want out. But it’s not what’s best for us, and we can’t see that. You can. Back to trust…
I discovered in the Jewish bible, the word for ‘faith’ is ‘trust’. What a great perspective—faith IS trust!

“But the person who is righteous will live his life by trust” Romans 1:17 (CJB)

Do we trust you Father? Trust that you really do love us? Really to have what is best for us in your plan? If we’re in an uncomfortable or even horrible position, we just want a rescuer…we don’t care about learning a lesson. But that’s our limited viewpoint. You see the big picture the better good that will eventually come from something.
In viagra from india online different cases the individual may turn out to be rather worrisome if this gets recurring. Cons: * Erectile dysfunction medication also has been shown to treat pulmonary arterial buy cheap sildenafil hypertension can be a life-threatening situation in many cases. The pill the best sildenafil normally works through causing male organ erection for more than 4 times. cheap sale viagra This results into the quick loss of erection or soft erection.
So please forgive me Father. For all the times I scream and cry that you don’t care enough, love enough to rescue me. Help my unbelief father in trusting you to be the ultimate provider for my good!

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. Romans 4.20

So why all the suffering and leaving us to go thru the ICK when you could so easily rescue us? I think back to the sufferings of Christ…and if he had to suffer, why would I think I shouldn’t?

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered…Hebrews 5:8

I see from your word that the sufferings teach us obedience. It teaches us to be strengthened in our faith. I hadn’t realized how much a lack of trust is rebellion against you. Your word has stories how your followers rejected your leading due to lack of belief-lack of trust—which really is a form of rebellion.

There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.” In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go. Deuteronomy 1:31-32

It just seems so exhausting to know it’s a constant walk of battles…thankfully we have already won the battle—we just sometimes don’t realize it and keep battling the wrong things.
Thank you for the victory Father! I DO trust you do what is best—help me in my wavering trust at times! Sometimes just trusting will be my sacrifice.


Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the Lord. Psalm 4:5