Trust In God 

   “Our one task, our one goal, the whole purpose, meaning, and secret of our lives is to learn how to fully trust God.  Trusting God is everything.” (Dr. Gregory Bottaro, “The Mindful Christian”) 

   Trust is something that many, if not most of us find very hard.  Perhaps we’ve been betrayed in the past by one we trusted.  Maybe it’s because we see the evidence of so many lies and deceptions in the world.  Whatever the reason it’s hard to place our trust in others.

   Years ago a handshake sealed the agreement.  Now it takes attorneys and many pages of legalistic language to have a contract and even then we fear it will be ignored or twisted to serve the purposes of another.

   Many no longer even trust their spouse, they demand a pre-nuptial agreement outlining who gets what and how much in case of a divorce.  Love alone is apparently no long a sufficient reason to marry; trust is not granted even to the one we say we will love until death do us part.

   But there is One in whom we can trust without fear, our Heavenly Father.  There will never be a betrayal, never a lie, what He says will be done will be done and what He promises will occur.  Yet many have difficulty even in trusting God.  They trust in His ways when things are going well but question His plans in times of difficulty or sorrow.

   Trust of others in this world is a scary thing.  More and more our trust is not warranted and those worthy of our trust are few and far between.  But there is One whose word is always His bond, whose promises are always kept.  In God we can place all our trust with absolute confidence that we will never be betrayed.