Trusting God

If God were to answer all our questions, we would not be adequately tested. What if God had said, "Job, Satan's going to test you and afflict you, but in the end you'll be healed and get everything back"?   Job's greatest test was not the pain; it was not knowing why he was suffering. Our greatest test may be that we must trust God's goodness even though we don't understand why our lives are going a certain way. "We must learn to trust in God, who is good, and not in the goodness of life."   What would it take for you to trust God without knowing the answers to your questions? Are you willing to get to that place?    Sometimes God doesn't explain what's happening to us or where He is leading us - When He does this, we are to blindly trust that HE knows what He's doing! If He were to explain it to us, it might scare us  and we wouldn't follow His sure leading. Faith begins when we say, “I trust You, God.” (Psalm 31:14) Trusting God   It’s easy enough to say you trust God when the “big things” in life go your way. For trust is a word you know and believe and hold for the moments you pray. But when life gets hard and things fall apart and you’re crying with tears on your sleeve, God will bring you through crises, trials, and pain to test what you really believe. When you’re tired and lonely and seeking a spouse as you wait on the mate that God chooses; God will draw you to himself as you trust in His timing and respect the methods He uses. When you quietly trust in the midst of great heartache to believe God works all things for good, You are looking at His sovereignty instead of your circumstance and surrendering what’s not understood. When you’re slighted & overlooked for what’s “rightfully yours” -trusting God will reveal what to do. And trusting will pull you into the wisdom of heaven as God shows His great glory to you. Trusting God through the losses that send your heart reeling will give strength to each prayer as you call; Till you come to realize it’s not losses or success but it’s knowing your God through it all. Trusting God blindly no matter what happens looks foolish to those who don’t know. But to the redeemed….who believe God by faith -trusting is what makes our faith grow. ©Sheila Gosney Trusting God