Trusting Thursday - I'll Trust!

Trusting Thursday

I’ll Trust

By Loulita Gill

As I’m walking on this journey I don’t always know where to go

So many things seem unfamiliar and I can feel lost and alone

There are shadows that are shouting trying to drown out my faith

But then I hear You whispering my name and I no longer feel afraid

Chorus:

So I’ll trust in You when my mind is prone to worry

I’ll trust in You when my doubts feel like a storm

I’ll trust in You when my heart is dark and heavy

I’ll trust in You ‘cos You’ve seen me through before

And there are mountains that I’m facing that I don’t know how to climb

River and valleys overwhelm me and you seem so far out of sight

And all my anxious thoughts are throwing accusations in my face

But then I hear You whispering my name and I no longer feel afraid

Chorus:

So I’ll trust in You when my mind is prone to worry

I’ll trust in You when my doubts feel like a storm

I’ll trust in You when my heart is dark and heavy

I’ll trust in You ‘cos You’ve seen me through before

This is a song I heard recently. I was pondering on the word “trust.” In the Bible, “trust” translated

literally means “a bold, confident, sure security or action based on that security.” Trust is not exactly the

same as faith, which is the gift of God (Eph 2:8-9). Rather, trusting is what we do because of the faith we

have been given. Trusting is believing in the promises of God in all circumstances, even in those where

the evidence seems to be to the contrary. Hebrews 11 talks about faith, which is accepting and believing

the truth that God reveals about Himself, particularly in the person of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nevertheless, the practical consequence of faith in God is trust, which we prove by living out our full

acceptance of God’s promises day by day. Also, it is by this trust that we are promised peace: “You will

keep in peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you” (Isa 26:3).

Have you ever felt like life was out of your control? Life is out of your control... but the good news is –

it's not out of God’s! God’s ways are higher than our ways, his thoughts higher than our thoughts (Is

55:8-9) Despite all the fear, pain, and loneliness, God has a purpose in the pain – no trial is wasted.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight (Prov 3:5-6) One thing that can be noted about biblical trust is that it always brings further trust in our God. The man of God never stops trusting in God completely. His faith may be knocked, He may stumble, or He may fall into the foulest of sins, but “though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand” (Ps 37:24). The man of God knows that, though trials will beset in this life, his trust will not waiver because that trust is based on faith in the promises of God: the promise of eternal joy with the Lord and the promise of an inheritance that “can never perish, spoil and fade” (1 Pet 1:4).

- Olivia Zummach