Trusting in God (Joshua)

Trusting in God is a concept that I have never understood in its entirety. And, though I am learning more, I never will fully understand it. Every day in our lives we have opportunities to trust something. We trust that when we wake up in the morning, we will have food in the kitchen; when we sit in a chair, it will not come crashing down under us. We trust in people, we trust in money, we trust in possessions, we trust in this and we trust in that. But, most of these things we have control over. We trust that their will be food in the kitchen because we have worked for it or someone else has worked for it and earned it. We trust that the chair we bought will hold us up because we tested it to make sure it was worthy of sitting in. We trust in people because we have seen that in the past they have done well. But, in all of these things we have a high degree of control. I so often put my trust in things that I have control over and not the things I don't. When I lose control of a situation, I have a difficult time trusting. Maybe I have misunderstood the meaning of trust all together. I should always be trusting in God but I never give him all of my trust because I often times still have some control.

When we were traveling down here, in several different situations we had no control over what was happening. We had been traveling all day and on our finally trip on bus to where we had to get to. For some reason the bus driver stopped in a different place than we were supposed to get off. We tried to communicate with him about where we were supposed to be and we showed him our bus tickets and then he just kind of nodded and pointed us to get back on the bus. We had no idea where he was going to take us. All we could do was to trust that he would take us to the correct bus station. And, he did. We made it safely and without any trouble after that.

Nonetheless, I have been having a hard time trusting God in every situation of my life. I tend to trust in Him only when I can also trust in my own strength as well. I think that this trip will challenge my thinking about trust in a new way. I will definitely have to trust Him and not rely on my own understanding as this adventure continues.