Learning to Trust
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways submit to him and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
Dear God,
I trust you. I trust that you know exactly what you are doing at this very moment. I trust that you have complete control of my life. I trust that you know why I am going through what I am. I put my whole life in your hands and trust that you know exactly what will happen. Help me to trust in you with all my heart and to not lean on my own understanding. In all my ways help me to submit to you and allow you to make my paths straight. I love you, Lord. If ever I run I pray that it will be to run straight into your loving arms. Jesus name, Amen.
Trust has probably been one of my biggest struggles my whole life. Not just trusting God but with trusting anyone. I've had many people that I have trusted with certain areas of my life at different times in my life and eventually we end up not speaking or not speaking much. I struggle with letting anyone know everything about me. I feel like I'm a burden to someone if I begin to share too much about me, and I eventually decide too much was shared and they will never look at me the same way so I spare them the mess and move on. I push them away as if they hadn't meant a thing to me when in reality they meant more to me than words could have ever described.
As you could imagine, trusting God has not been easy for me. It's not because God isn't a trustworthy person, because he is, but its because of me and the mess that I am. I've come to the realization though, that trusting God is so much better than trusting anyone else. God has never failed me and I don't expect him to ever fail me. Trusting God hasn't been easy but once I began to trust him with one thing than it became easier to trust him with ALL things. Now let me remind you that I still struggle with this but I am learning daily to trust.
Recently, I have been trying to take more action in living out scriptures. Instead of just reading a verse and moving on, I'm striving to read a verse and apply it to my life. Proverbs 3:5-6 has been the verse that has stuck out to me the most after beginning this journey more intentionally. Learning to trust in the Lord with all your heart and leaning not on your own understanding and in all your ways submitting to God and knowing he will make your paths straight is a struggle some days. I like to know exactly what steps are ahead of me and what will happen and how they will happen. The more I trust God, the less visible steps I see. Right now, I don't know what is about to happen. I'm taking steps that require faith and trust in God and I believe God knows exactly what he is doing.
If you are like me and struggle with trusting anyone and don't quite know how to trust God, let me give you a bit of advice that I have learned. Don't give up. Start off by talking to God daily. Tell him about your day and what went on. Give him one thing you are worrying about and tell him you trust that he will work it all out and provide the way he sees fit. (For me it was trusting that God would provide me with a vehicle) After giving that to God, ask him to help you to not worry about it and just trust that He has it under control, because he does. Each day, remind yourself God is more powerful than you. After each thing that you trust God with, start to give him more and watch how he works everything out. Then, go share your own advice with others that may struggle with that same thing. Thanks for reading! Any tips you may have for me would be greatly appreciated :)
Dear God,
I trust you. I trust that you know exactly what you are doing at this very moment. I trust that you have complete control of my life. I trust that you know why I am going through what I am. I put my whole life in your hands and trust that you know exactly what will happen. Help me to trust in you with all my heart and to not lean on my own understanding. In all my ways help me to submit to you and allow you to make my paths straight. I love you, Lord. If ever I run I pray that it will be to run straight into your loving arms. Jesus name, Amen.
Trust has probably been one of my biggest struggles my whole life. Not just trusting God but with trusting anyone. I've had many people that I have trusted with certain areas of my life at different times in my life and eventually we end up not speaking or not speaking much. I struggle with letting anyone know everything about me. I feel like I'm a burden to someone if I begin to share too much about me, and I eventually decide too much was shared and they will never look at me the same way so I spare them the mess and move on. I push them away as if they hadn't meant a thing to me when in reality they meant more to me than words could have ever described.
As you could imagine, trusting God has not been easy for me. It's not because God isn't a trustworthy person, because he is, but its because of me and the mess that I am. I've come to the realization though, that trusting God is so much better than trusting anyone else. God has never failed me and I don't expect him to ever fail me. Trusting God hasn't been easy but once I began to trust him with one thing than it became easier to trust him with ALL things. Now let me remind you that I still struggle with this but I am learning daily to trust.
Recently, I have been trying to take more action in living out scriptures. Instead of just reading a verse and moving on, I'm striving to read a verse and apply it to my life. Proverbs 3:5-6 has been the verse that has stuck out to me the most after beginning this journey more intentionally. Learning to trust in the Lord with all your heart and leaning not on your own understanding and in all your ways submitting to God and knowing he will make your paths straight is a struggle some days. I like to know exactly what steps are ahead of me and what will happen and how they will happen. The more I trust God, the less visible steps I see. Right now, I don't know what is about to happen. I'm taking steps that require faith and trust in God and I believe God knows exactly what he is doing.
If you are like me and struggle with trusting anyone and don't quite know how to trust God, let me give you a bit of advice that I have learned. Don't give up. Start off by talking to God daily. Tell him about your day and what went on. Give him one thing you are worrying about and tell him you trust that he will work it all out and provide the way he sees fit. (For me it was trusting that God would provide me with a vehicle) After giving that to God, ask him to help you to not worry about it and just trust that He has it under control, because he does. Each day, remind yourself God is more powerful than you. After each thing that you trust God with, start to give him more and watch how he works everything out. Then, go share your own advice with others that may struggle with that same thing. Thanks for reading! Any tips you may have for me would be greatly appreciated :)
Thank you so much for this post, it is such an encouragment to me. this week has been so amazing! Until around yesterday evening it was still amazing but I began to get very scared about the things that were happening and could happen in just the next few years. your post has been a wonderful reminder to trust God with everything and o know that if it is in His will He was let it happen. Thank you so much your posts have been such an encouragment to me!
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for reading them! Also, thanks for the feedback, it means so much and encourages me! God is amazing!
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