“Fear is useless. What is needed is trust.”
The one thing God asks of me again and again is trust.
It’s not just any trust He desires, for He doesn’t want a partial trust, or a trust all mixed up with worries and doubts. Instead, what He desires from me is a radical trust, which means a full and complete surrender to Him.
It may sound like a simple thing – and it is – but “simple” doesn’t always mean “easy.” In fact, most of the time, I find trusting God to be an extraordinarily difficult act, especially since I keep finding myself in situations that look and feel as if they’re impossible to resolve.
But perhaps the impossible situations are precisely the moments when God can demonstrate His love most powerfully – and when my decisions to trust become most meaningful and sincere. When I can no longer rely on human efforts to untangle the messes I’m in, I can resign myself to despair – or I can cast everything in zany dependence into the hands of God. Sometimes, to the outsider, trust looks like a supremely unreasonable and illogical activity, in contradiction to all the most obvious likelihoods and probabilities.
But I’m of the belief that faith, if it’s true, often has a bit of craziness in it. (Ah, so maybe that’s why I’m a little unhinged.)