The inability to trust can be debilitating. Apparently, there’s a lot of it going around. From people not trusting that their situations at home will ever get better, to their finances, to their children, to their jobs, to their marriages….just a whole lot of mistrust.
It’s really hard to always look at things through a suspicious vantage point. It’s hard to sit and wait for the other shoe to fall because you’re poised for disappointment as a result of not being able to trust. What an exhausting way to live. Been there, done that.
I’m definitely not insinuating that some people or situations don’t contribute to that feeling. There are, unfortunately, some people who can enter our lives (or who have been in our lives forever!) who aren’t trustworthy ~ and it wouldn’t be wise for us to ignore that. God gave us common sense so we should be using it to protect ourselves.
What I’m more specifically referring to is the overall mistrust that things are going to work out for good. That really goes unnoticed sometimes…we can get so muddled in the hopelessness and doubt that there is a failure to notice the promise and possibility. It’s that negativity that is a cancer and it will destroy our health just as surely as a terminal illness.
Romans 8:28 affirms “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” So, whatever the situation, trust in Him. He is, without exception, where we should place our expectations. Trust that He sees your needs and your disappointments but that there is a plan in place and that it will all work for the good.
I’m truly pained when I see my friends disappointed by their circumstances; I have been there. I have to make a conscious effort to refute those thoughts when they sneak in.
Don’t let anyone or any circumstance steal your joy, friends. Learn to trust ~ it truly will set you free.
By Amy
Wife.Mom.Christian.Blogger.....and that's really just the beginning. :-)