Trust Is The Uncommon Choice

Lately, I feel like I've been in that season of life where things definitely haven't turned out how I expected them to. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying things haven't gone well or that things have turned out bad. That is very much not the case. God has worked everything for my good and He has proven once again that He is faithful. It just is one of those times where my human head imagined things one way, and God's infinite wisdom had something very different in mind. And that got me thinking. How often do I sit back and say, "God this isn't what I expected but I'm going to trust you anyway." As I contemplated that, I couldn't find that many instances. More then not, what I was filled with was, "God, this isn't what I had planned at all!" I'm sure God was laughing in those moments and saying, "Exactly son, it's not what you had planned. It's what I had planned." I just wonder how many times we choose not to trust in God even when things aren't going wrong? Stamping that on our money and practicing it are two very different things. It's far more difficult to imagine things working out given, "Nor are your ways, My ways says the Lord...". That leads me to my main thought. We choose a lot of things but I don't think it's normally trust in Him. Trust is the uncommon choice. So where does that trust in our Father get you? Look at every single great man and woman mentioned in the bible and I think you will see a group of people readily willing to make the uncommon choice. I'm sure it wasn't easy for Moses to follow God's direction into the wilderness but He did it anyway. I'm sure Abraham was probablly pretty nervous to go sacrfice his son because the Lord had told him to. It must have been hard for Hannah in some ways to trust God completely with the child He had just given her, Samuel. But even through those choices, they decided to trust Him. I think we need to strive for that. Trusting Him with everything is not a good idea, it is The Idea. It seems to me that this is part of what He desired all along. He wanted humanity to know, He could be trusted. So let's strive for that in our lives church. In the big decision, in the small decisions, in the good outcomes, and in the bad ones, let's trust Him.
Trust is the uncommon choice for all of us.
What choice will you make?