The key to learning trust is to just do it. This isn’t an advertising slogan. The more you trust God, the more you will see that God comes through for you. The more you trust God, the more you will see that He is trustworthy.
This can be hard to start, though. How can you trust God before you know He can be trusted? You just have to try it. Of course, you can read about those in the Bible who trusted God. You can listen to fellow church members or family members who trusted God. But until you trust God yourself, you won’t have any firsthand experience, by definition.
You can read all about how to play an instrument. You can watch videos. You can listen to and watch others play the instrument. But until you actually try it yourself, you really don’t know what it’s like to play it.
Similar to faith, trust isn’t trust if you already know the outcome. Trust isn’t really trust in God if you secretly plan to do everything yourself, not leaving anything up to ‘chance’ (or God, in reality). Trust is hard for our culture of self-reliance and scientific certitude. With our modern knowledge, we may think we are strong enough and skilled enough and smart enough to handle everything ourselves. But even the most amazing human beings can fall flat on our faces when we don’t trust God. The reason? The world doesn’t follow humanity’s laws – it follows God’s laws.
The Bible is full of sayings and prophecies about how God makes things happen the way He wants them to happen. What better reason to trust God? He gives us knowledge and wisdom, which we should definitely use, but if we don’t add in trust in God, then our endeavors are risky indeed.
I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself, who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense.
Isaiah 44:24-25