Unquestionable Trust

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. ~ Proverbs 3:5-6

Over the last week I have been faced with a lot of things that would beg me to question the Lord and if he is really paying attention to all of the things that are going on down here. Untimely deaths, people making choices that will destroy their lives and those who depend on them, manipulating circumstances, etc.

Why do innocent people have to suffer?

Why do loved ones have to get sick? Or die?

Why does it seem that people who pay no attention to the Lord or his ways, seem to have everything go their way all the time?

Why aren't all of the desires of my heart met?

So many questions that seem to have no answer. Perhaps truly have no answer or explanation at all.

I remember years ago I started to write all of the questions that I had floating around in my head. All of the things that did not add up I just let it all out on paper. The paper ended up being 14 pages. FRONT and BACK!! I and wrote small too.

The funniest thing was at the end of this two day ranting I ended with a loud and resounding answer in my head. Well maybe not an answer as much as a reply. It was the verse "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding".

Well I was not fortunately strong enough at that time in my walk to accept this reply, and had to then spend the few years following that being humbled and refined. Praise be to God's grace, I came to a place of peace with this.

I do not have to understand or be able to see all that God is doing in a other's life. I do not have to even see where he is directing me in my own life. I trust him. Without question!

I know that he loves me. I know that he is good. I know that he came to bring life, and bring it abundantly. I know that he wants to know me, and know others. I know that life is going to happen. I know that he does not put me on a path to lead me to destruction.

So I guess instead of trying to find answers to so much that i do not know, and do not understand, I have decided that I am going to look to what I DO know!! And trust in that. Trust in him. Yahweh!