Trust me

You keep in perfect peace those whose minds are stayed on you, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.   Isaiah 26:3-4

I spent far too long on Saturday, scouring the house for my shed keys. I even picked through the garden bin in case I’d accidentally chucked them in there. It was crawling with bugs – ugh! Even when I wasn’t looking for the keys, I was fretting about them.

I did finally catch myself on at tea-time. I walked along the sunlit river, picked juicy blackberries and regained a sense of perspective, reminded that I can trust God with all the losses that life brings, from little lost keys to the heartbreaks. God will make all good.

At 6pm, I got ready to go out for supper and there were those errant keys, nestling safely in the top pocket of my jacket.

It set me thinking how often I fret unnecessarily. Looking back over my life, countless things I worried over have resolved. I could have saved myself bucket-loads of angst if I had trusted God more.

So what does trusting look like? is it pretending the tough stuff doesn’t exist? That would require blindfolds and noise-silencing headphones. Most of us have nagging worries - whether over friends and family or over the state of our world. Covid has punctured our illusions of invulnerability.  Climate change is scary. Whether it’s the cultural trends describing Christianity as toxic or the rise of the Taliban, there is so much to concern us.  

Trusting God doesn’t mean denying worry and stress.  Instead, we are invited to bring it all to our loving Father.  Like a tree by a stream, close to him, trust grows and enables us to rise up to face the challenges ahead, to play our part in God’s great restoration plan.

Always, God is saying, “Trust me, beloved”.

When it’s dark, when fear grips, when loneliness threatens, when we think all is lost, God says,  “Trust me.”

What fuels your trust? For me, it is the promises of God which help me lift my eyes off myself onto him. Is there a promise that he wants to remind you of today? Take a moment of quiet and listen. And if you’d like to share it in the comments to encourage us, please do!

God constantly calls us to trust him - so that with the Psalmist, we can say, “I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. “ Psalm 13:5