Trust is one of those things that is great in theory. It sounds good in a sermon, prompting “Amens” from the congregation. It produces solid counsel toward others who need a dose of it in their situation.
But trust is not something that is necessarily fun to acquire. For it requires us to go through tough places to attain it. Nor is trust an instantaneous quality that can be bought with plastic and paid for later. Trust requires us to go through a situation (or numerous situations) depriving us of the ability to get out of it on our own. Trust comes from a place of despair or frustration or pain or hopelessness or all of the above.
But trust also comes from a place of confidence that, although the world around me is crumbling confusion, my God has proven Himself faithful in the past. And He will do so again.
