I Can Trust God

12–15 minutes

Center · Stillness

Settle in

Put the phone down. Take one slow breath, and say: “God, I am here. Speak, I am listening.”

Read · The passage

Scripture

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.

Psalm 37:5, BSB

Learn · Reflection

Reflection

Trusting God does not mean understanding everything that happens. Very often it means to keep walking even while the questions are still there. God stays faithful in the hard moments, and learning to rest in Him can bring peace to your heart in the middle of uncertainty and fear. Corrie Ten Boom lived through very hard moments during a time of war. There were situations of fear, uncertainty, and pain that seemed impossible to understand.

Even so, Corrie learned something that marked her whole life: trusting God even without having all the answers.

At different times she spoke about how we often want to understand first and trust afterward. With God, though, we learn that sometimes we have to trust before we completely understand what is happening.

That does not mean she never felt sadness or fear. It means she decided not to face those emotions alone.

All of us will have days when things do not turn out the way we hoped, or when we do not understand why certain situations happen. Even then, God is still faithful.

Trusting does not always mean having complete clarity.

Very often it means resting in the knowledge that God is still holding us up, even when we cannot yet see the whole road.

Talk · Conversation

Talk about it

Which question in your life is still without an answer, and what would it look like to trust God before you understand?

Thank · Gratitude

Give thanks

Today I thank God that He stays faithful even inside the things I still do not understand.

Ask · Prayer

Pray together

God, I hand You the thing that worries me most and that I do not know how to fix. I trust that You will act, even if I still do not understand how.

Begin · Application

Carry it into the day

Choose one worry that is out of your control and say out loud today, "God, I hand this over to You."

Scripture quoted from the Berean Standard Bible. Public domain (CC0)