Day 18:  About Trust

From Touching the Clouds: Encouraging Stories to Make Your Faith Soar

Trusting is such an everyday experience that we don’t even think about it. We trust the pilot who flies the plane, the driver who drives the bus, the engineer who designs the bridge, the plumber who fixes the leak, the surgeon who stitches our bodies. These people have expertise in their respective fields of endeavor, and we trust they have prepared and studied to do the best job they can. We trust them temporarily, but we trust God for eternity.

The Hebrew word for the verb trust means “to have confidence in.” Here are a few Scriptures that enlarge upon this concept and assure us that God is worthy of our trust:

“It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man” (Psalm 118: 8 NASB).

“In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Psalm 56: 11 NASB).

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God” (Psalm 20: 7 NIV).