YOU LEARN TO TRUST GOD WHEN YOU HAVE TO TRUST GOD

Are you worried about something? Maybe it’s not one thing, but five. One of our first responses to a hectic schedule or a troubled economy is to worry. Worry can creep into every area of our lives, but God doesn’t want us to worry. He wants us to trust him. It’s easy to say that we trust God. But often our actions don’t match that statement.
The truth is that God reigns. No matter what your situation is, Jesus reigns over all things — your cancer, your job loss, the painful situation you’re facing. When it feels like life is falling apart, we can trust him. The question is, do we?

1. You learn to trust God by trusting God.
You will never learn to trust God by watching someone else do it or by reading about it in a book, or even this article. You only trust God by actually doing it.
2. You never trust God until you have to.
I know my human nature: If I’m in a difficult circumstance I will do anything to get out of that circumstance. My first thought when things are uncomfortable is to find a way out of the situation. We never trust God until we have to. So...
3. God will make sure that you have to trust him.
God is going to allow circumstances in our lives that we have no human way of wiggling out of. He does that because he needs to teach us some things. He wants us to trust him, but the only way we learn that is by doing it. So he loves us enough to put us in situations where we have to trust him.
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1: 2-4)
Scripture teaches us that sometimes God allows trials in our lives. He does it to teach us to trust him and to mature us and make us more like Jesus. He has to shatter the misconceptions we have of him. He has to remove the lies we believed about him, ourselves and others. He wants us to trust him.