What is ruthless trust? It sounds pretty intense, to be honest. It sounds that way because ruthless has never been used before as something particularly good; however, ruthless in this case is describing something as wonderful, simple, and difficult as trust. Something I have been learning a lot in my own life over the past few months—as well as literally all of my sqaud-mates—is that trust plays such a key part in a relationship with Jesus Christ. Trust is literally everything. We trust God to feed us, clothe us, provide for our needs (not wants but needs), and so many more things in our day to day lives and in our future. It is absolutely incredible on how much God asks us to depend on Him. I actually did some research and found just a few verses in the Bible that specifically mention trust or ask us to trust.
Romans 1:17 “as it is written, ‘the righteous shall live by faith.’”
Psalm 20:7 “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord.”
All of Psalm 23
Psalm 31:14 “But I trust in you, O Lord; I say ‘you are my God.’”
Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
I could find endless verses like this all over the Bible. These verses highlight the fact that we are suppose to trust God, but do we understand what the true significance is of ruthless trust in Christ? Ruthless trust is believing and living confidently in the fact that Jesus will come through for you every single time. It’s putting confidence in the fact the Jesus is God and has the power, authority, love, and wisdom to do exactly what needs to be done when it needs to be done. That’s something that I can honestly say I do not understand almost all of the time.
Honestly, there have been SO many moments where I literally have no idea what I’m doing or how I’m going to make it out of there, but God still comes through. I am still very much working on my trust issues with the Lord, about present things like if I will actually get lunch today, if my bag will actually make it to the airport in the next country, and every other small thing in my normal day. Also, future things like how am I going to provide for myself, where am I going next in life, and knowing that I will not end up poor or broken. I still greatly struggle with these worries, but after reading a book, Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning, I have been able to understand my struggle and start to work on it. It is an up-hill battle most days, but progress is happening.
Progress happens when you’re able to lay things down at the feet of Jesus and know that He’s going to do more than just take care of it. That is one hard life to live, yet, I would not want to live life any other way. Life would be far to difficult and complicated if I had to run it all by myself.
