Trusting God what does it entails

The admonition to trust God is replete in the scriptures. In one instance we are told to, “Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him: God is refuge for us” (Psalms 62:8).

The majority of people especially those who believe in God profess to have trust in God, but what does trusting God entails? Trusting God I am afraid is more profound than many of us have realized. To trust God is to have a firm belief or confidence in the honesty, truthfulness, justice, and power of God. And when an individual on his/her own volition surrenders, or gives up his/her life to God, trusting God then signifies that the individual has covenanted with God to give him full control and jurisdiction over his/her life.

Now since surrendering one’s life to God is a covenant between the individual and God, it is the individual’s responsibility to allow God to have full control over his/her life, and believe it or not it is incumbent upon God in whom the individual has placed his/her trust, as a matter of responsibility and obligation to exercise full control over the individual. In this regard we have been comforted with these words, “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the almighty, will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

Because of the confidence and rest, due to the trust one has in God, He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence; He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked” (Psalms 91:1-8).

These promises however are conditional, they do not occur automatically even though one professes to believe in God, it is God’s due responsibility to those who have made the Lord their refuge, who have placed their trust in God, because the psalmist continues; “Because (conditional) you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your habitation, no evil shall befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. For, He will give His angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.”

Again, conditionally, “Because he cleaves to Me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows My name. When he calls to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation” (Psalms 91:9-16).

We can therefore have full trust and confidence in God to keep His part of the covenant, because as He says, “God is not man, that he should lie or a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?” And thus says the Lord, “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore, you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.”

Now since God in whom we place our trust and confidence to be our refuge, shelter, protection, safety, security from danger and trouble, and Who is trustworthy and just, and does not change, why then should we believers who profess to have trust in God,  murmur, and complaint when things are not going well, especially our way?

Especially when we have been admonished to, “Do all things without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault, in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.” The reason why we are not to complaint and argue it is because, “It is God who works in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure”(Philippians 2:13-15).

Furthermore, we have been duly instructed saying, “All things works together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

The obvious reason why those of us who claimed to have surrendered our lives to God become disillusioned, discouraged, despondent, disenchanted, fearful, and pessimistic it is because we do not trust God. It is that simple.

To be continued

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With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph