Tag: trusting God

It’s okay to feel the pain. . . and it’s okay to be honest with the Lord about how hard it is. But, at the end of the day, we can look at the trials and declare that God is good, even through it.

Corrie Ten Boom learned to trust God early through the faith of her family.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

We have to believe that God is our for our good. That he cares for us. That he is not going to take advantage of us when we submit to him.

Our God sees the big picture and is intimately involved in the situation.

When circumstances seem to mount against you, when you are feeling anything other than confident, when you are shake to your core and confused about what’s happening in life - these are times when you start to feel that verb. Trust is work.

Trusting God in uncertain times

I often thought of pilgrimage in abstract, idealized terms until I went through a season of suffering.