The Trust Factor

Developing a personal relationship with God is a very important key to finding and understanding one’s life blueprint. God wants us to seek Him with all of our heart for guidance and direction.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (MSG) reads:

“Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.”

When we allow God to lead the way, life is less complicated. If God is leading me, distractions don’t cause me to make corruptive detours. My resolve is simple: if God is leading me, then my responsibility and my blessing is to follow. Even roadblocks and adversaries can’t obscure the direction of God’s leading.

My determination is that if He is leading me, my obligation and blessings come from following Him. Even the encounter of roadblocks and adversaries to where I am going cannot replace nor distort the view of where He is leading me.

One of the major reasons why we don’t consult God is because we do not trust Him. We do not trust God, because we do not really know God. The tendency is for believers to have a “surface” or superficial relationship with God. We trust Him to have saved our lives from sin and to be the God of our Sunday morning, but decline to trust Him to be God, who knows enough to reveal His plan for our lives.

"When we allow God lead the way, life is less complicated"

To trust God means to rely on His integrity, strength, ability, and surety. This is only developed through experiences that teach us how to rely on Him.

Trusting in God results from spending time with Him. In the natural, you are more likely to trust a person with whom you communicate daily than a person with whom you have no dealings. That’s because you have history with the person. You know their integrity as well as understand their limitations and strengths. Similarly, you can miss God because you do not know, recognise, and realise what He can and is doing with your life.

When you look at the story of the three Hebrew boys in the Book of Daniel, it is clear that they did not lack confidence in God. It was precisely that confidence that caused them to have faith in God. It was clear that they had developed the attitude that no matter what they faced, God was more than able to bring them out. 

Though faith is foundational to salvation, it remains one of the greatest struggles in the life of a believer. Faith is not just a mental exercise; it demands a deep spiritual assurance that must be summoned again and again in the face of life’s challenges.

So, ask yourself honestly:

• What areas in my life are hardest to trust God with?

• Do I really trust Him?

God bless you,

O. Oluranti Orioke