Trust in Him

We journey to a little-known or read prophet today, Nahum.

But what he tells us is so true..."The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. he cares for those who trust in him ..."

Trust is such a difficult commodity, isn't it? The opposite of trust, I think, is control. We want so much to control our issues, and we often deal with the fears in our life by trusting ourselves instead of the one who actually can be our refuge.

We do not have to plan, control and schedule our lives any longer when we give that control over to God. We turn to him in times of trouble and in times of joy to direct and guide us. He will. He does.

The Lord is good... the prophet tells us and we believe that, but still we seek to control our own destiny, fate, careers, relationships. Does that make sense?

Turn to another minor prophet, Habakkuk, and you will see the proper way to trust. Habakkuk says, where are you God, asks how long must he call for help and generally fails to trust at all. Right up until one of the most magnificent ideas in scripture when he says: "yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, YET I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in God my Savior."

Trust is giving over control, and whatever the outcome might be, not taking control back.

Can we do that? Are we capable of doing that?

Can we praise as did Habakkuk: "The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He enables me to go on the heights."

That's trust.