What Does Trust Look Like?

“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 NIV

Whale Point Walk - Haga Haga - Easter Cape

Life is like a hike - one moment you’re walking along happily in a wide-open field, humming your favourite tune with the cool wind blowing your hair, the next you’re crawling on all-fours up a steep bank, trying desperately not to slip, and sometimes not even knowing whether you’re going in the right direction! Sound familiar?

In other translations, the end of verse 6 says: “…He will direct your paths.”

Boy, wouldn’t it be a lot easier if God could let us know exactly where to go, when? The ‘inner planner’ in me shouts “Yes, please!” to that idea!

The problem is, where would trust come in? How would a genuine relationship develop with our Father God?

Life never quite works out the way we’d hoped or planned. And as Christians, Jesus never said our lives would be easy, or marked out with giant arrows and detailed maps along the way, though that would be way more convenient!

It all comes down to two simple things on our part – trusting and submitting.

We’re called to place our full trust in God, no matter what we see ahead of us - whether we can barely see our feet, or the path we’re on, or even when we can see the way clearly before us. Our responsibility is to surrender our everyday lives to His guidance, to listen to His Holy Spirit and live a life of obedience to our God. When we do the trusting and submitting, we can be certain that He will guide our paths...