Trusting God

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As a believer, the issue of trusting God doesn’t really arise since we can see from the Psalms and the history of Israel throughout the pages of the Old Testament that He is trustworthy. He punished the Israelites for their unfaithfulness and insolence, and yet He rescued them when He saw them suffering too much. Like He brought them out of slavery from Egypt or the times He brought them back from exile from the Assyrians and the Babylonians. In modern times, after the Holocaust, He helped them set up the state of Israel and brought home all scattered Jewry from all over the world. Today, if you are of Hebrew ancestry, you will be welcomed in Israel with a host of benefits for you to start your life afresh there. Just google Aliyah to Israel, and you will see a range of benefits from income-tax breaks, rental assistance, allowances, property tax incentives, free health insurance, free one way flight, transport from airport etc.

In addition, as believers, we believe and put our faith on the unseen as the unseen is eternal. Thus, it is part of the natural makeup of a believer to be able to trust God. Faith is about trusting God as He is unseen.

The true test comes when the tyre hits the road. When we face life issues as we know, life can be a roller coaster. Unavoidably, so, actually. Are we able to trust God when we go through our “valley” experiences? When we are reprimanded for making a mistake at work or sacked because we couldn’t meet the sales targets. I heard before of a company putting their entire sales team under a performance improvement plan because it was not bringing in the numbers. In challenging times, can we put our trust in God?

I always believed in starting small before we progressed into bigger things. So even in the actual experience of trusting God, start somewhere relatively small. As we find His reality working in our lives, we can work towards greater things like praying for others or praying for healing. God is real. Jesus is alive, having been resurrected 3 days after His death on the cross. His Word demonstrates His faithfulness.

Each of us is unique, and thus, we will have different experiences of Him and His miraculous power. The point is we need to move out in faith, trust Him in order to experience Him. Start small, start somewhere. Move out in faith, respond to His call, and we will know that He knows us personally and cares for us dearly as individuals, as His children. He treats and relates to each and every one of us uniquely. Trust Him for He is our rock and our salvation.