Trusting God

Trust in the LORD with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5 NLT)

Trust is an active word, not a passive mental acceptance. To trust means to commit yourself--like trusting a stool by sitting on it. You commit your weight to the stool. 

We often try to mix trusting God with our "own understanding." When we try this we have to choose one over the other. Our understanding is limited and far inferior to God's wisdom. Trust involves accepting what I can't prove. 

I do believe that God expects me to "turn off my mind"--I just think that He wants to renew my mind so that I can see possibilities beyond my own limitations.  All the great victories of my life have come when I trusted God to do more than my mind could really figure out how He was going to do it.

Are you trusting God today?

Is there an area of your life where you need God to do something you can't figure out how He is going to do it?  What possibilities are there that you haven't seen yet?

Prayer : Father today I willfully trust You with my life. Holy Spirit I invite You to teach me and guide me. Show me possibilities that I have not seen.