True Trust Acts

“Fear keeps your hands in close;
Faith reaches your hand out;
Trust believes someone will grab it and lets go”
Loren Thornburg

Trust is defined as confidence and reliance on the integrity, strength, ability of a person or thing. Technically trust is both a thing and an action, a noun and a verb. But we can only see the fruits of trust when we put it into action and let it be a verb, especially a verb with an ing at the end. This implies trust which not only acts but is acting now, presently. We can say our trust is in this or that as a thing, as a noun, but until we have to act on that trust it is not true trust. For if we are not willing to act on that thing we say that our trust is in, how is that really the trust we defined. There is no confidence, reliance, or surety in something that we are not willing to step out in. True Trust is willing to act. It not only says it trusts, but it reaches out and lets go because it is truly confident, truly reliant, and truly sure of the strength, integrity, and ability of that which its trust is in. True trust is trusting.

“Trust me in your times of trouble and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory.”
Psalm 51:15 NLT

Trouble brings such fear into our lives and fear tends to bring us greater trouble. For in our fear so often we tighten up and look in. We stop looking, stop reaching for help. We take things into our own hands seeing no other way out. The reasons are many to stop trusting, but none is bigger than our God, who rescues and saves. God loves to show up in our times of trouble. Yet so often we don’t trust Him enough to give Him the time and space to rescue in His timing, in His way. God asks that we trust with a trust that is true, with a trust that acts, and with a trust that is present with an ing at the end. He asks because He knows His ability to rescue us is greater than any other person or thing. Not only does He have the ability to rescue you from that fear, from that circumstance, from that impossible place but He longs to do that. And if that’s not enough when we let Him rescue us from whatever our place of rescuing is He gets the glory.