Trust: Proverbs 3:5

"I trust you," is a very impactful phrase. It accompanies vulnerability, doesn't it? In trusting, we decide that the one or ones within whom we put our trust won't let us down. But at what point does one determine trustability?

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"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5

The word for "Trust" in this verse in Hebrew (Batah) means to have a kind of careless confidence. In other words, it isn't necessarily a trust that's earned, like "I trust that you'll get that job done since you've proven reliability in the past," but rather a kind of blind trust: I trust you because you are asking me to trust you, period. 

According to Pastor Creflo Dollar of World Changers Church in Georgia, "Trust is reliance on the integrity, the strength, the ability, the surety of God. It is a confident expectation."  

As I studied this term, 'trust,' and the concept of it, I began to wonder, what's the difference between trust and faith? Are faith and trust synonymous? If not, what's the difference? And then I sat back, and in my mind, I set the meanings of "faith" and "trust" side by side, and I realized that these two terms have little, if no, commonality outside of the fact that one follows the other: Faith is a choice or a decision based upon the examination of the recipient, and trust is the action as a result of the faith. Trust is, in a way, more repetitive throughout life. After we place faith in God as a result of our determination of His greatness and grace and redemptive abilities, we then spend our daily lives repeatedly placing our blind trust in His ability to take care of us. This means that after we've made the initial decision to follow Him, any time we say, "I have faith that God will take care of this problem," we would likely be more accurate in saying, "I trust God to take care of this problem." Faith is an initial belief based upon evidence; trust is falling into the arms of God every day.

Psalms 31:14 says, "But I trusted in thee, oh Lord. I said, 'thou art my God.' My times are in thy hand. Deliver me from my enemies." 

These verses indicate that trust in God is not only reliance upon God but it's an altogether blind reliance. It says that not only am I relying upon You for safety, but I'm acknowledging that every moment of my life is controlled and known by You. And we have to remind ourselves of the importance of trust as we make decisions throughout our lives...throughout each day, for that matter. This concept is seen in Psalms 37:5: "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass." Notice that the commitment is at least followed by the trust, if not concurrent with it. The way I see it, following our commitment to him with regard to any actions, we're told that we should then remind ourselves of the blind faith that we are to put in Him, and the result will be the bringing to pass of the will of God.

I've deliberately kept this entry short so that I could include the following video. I'm starting it at about the halfway point (6:40), but I would encourage you to watch it in its entirety. Let's listen to Chuck Swindoll, pastor, writer, and radio host of Insight for Living, as he talks to a group of students about this topic of trust:


We determine that God is worthy of our trust when we decide to place our faith in Him. After that, we spend each day reminding ourselves that He is trustworthy, and because He is trustworthy, we consistently fall into His arms. 

And that's today's talk. I hope that something you've heard has been impactful, meaningful, worthy of contemplation. Please subscribe to my channel, and be sure to comment if you feel so compelled.

Thank you for listening. See you soon.

Take care.


Sources

https://biblehub.com/hebrew/982.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3y5HRLkG9c

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/psalms/31.htm


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