Trusting God is hard. If you’ve ever heard anyone say otherwise, they’re either lying or have never stepped out in faith for God to do something in their lives. Lately, I’ve been feeling like Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade. You know the part where he has to cross that invisible bridge? He couldn’t see where he was going, just where he needed to be. [Side note: special effects have come such a long way!]
It’s easy to trust God when you can see the bridge. You know where to go and how to get there. Quite honestly, you can do it all by yourself so saying “I trust God” for those things means nothing. There is no trust but trust in yourself.
That’s sort of how I’ve been living my life. I haven’t really allowed God the chance to do something crazy. I’m talking Moses & the Red Sea kind of crazy. The kind of crazy that forces Pharaoh to give up all his slaves as you run away, leading millions of people to the desert to look for the “Promised Land” only to get to the sea and have God part the sea so everyone could cross on dry land. Whew!
My life hasn’t been crazy like that. I could always do it myself and call it “trusting God.” And if God asked me to do something I knew I couldn’t handle, I could always wiggle out of it with “practical” reasoning.
Deciding to say yes to the World Race has changed that. This is something I definitely cannot do on my own and something that is so completely NOT normal for me…it’s crazy. Ok, not Moses crazy, but it’s a start.
Every day I have the decision to trust God…or not. It’s simple, yet not easy.
It’s not easy to trust God when it doesn’t look like things are working out because…well, they’re not working how I think they should. After all, I’m perfect so my way should be best, right?
It’s not easy to look at a mountain and command it to move. All your years on earth have taught you what is or isn’t possible. Yet, God says it is possible.
It’s not easy to look at your life, prepare to leave it all behind, and trust that your whole world won’t fall apart. Studies show that moving, changing jobs and travel are some of the most stressful life situations. Yet the Holy Spirit is my comforter and God promises that He is always with me.
Trusting God is hard not because I don’t believe He is who He said He is – but because every day I have to take another step into something not known. I have to get a little crazier and go a little further away from the place I feel most comfortable. Yay! discomfort zone! I have to trust reasoning that doesn’t make sense to my little self. “My thoughts are completely different from yours,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. – (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Trusting God is hard because I can’t let my mind compose lists of what to do if things don’t work out. I can’t make plans “just in case.” That wouldn’t be trust. I’m not looking to make God’s plan my Plan A…God’s plan is the only plan. I have no Plan B. And for this practical, list-making, Midwestern girl…that is Moses crazy!
