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What Does it Mean to Trust God?

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your path straight. — Proverbs 3:5

Have you ever been told to “trust God?”

People who believe in God like to say this a lot, to themselves and others, especially when things aren’t going well.

But how do you trust God? Especially when you are afraid and don’t feel like it? What, even, IS trust?

“Trust,” according to Google, is:

Firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.

Trust in God does NOT mean that:

1. You believe everything will go the way you want it to, and it does

If that were true, those who follow God should be the most enviable people on Earth. Everything would go their way.

But obviously, it doesn’t, and they aren’t.

Believers living in some parts of the world are literally murdered for their beliefs. Others lose their jobs or livelihoods for their faith…