I was thinking of one of the hardest things for us to do as human beings is to trust. We want things to be definite. We want to know for sure what the end result is going to be. We even want to know how it is going to come about. With every situation we want an agenda. Please give me the itinerary with all of the times, delays, layovers and stops.

Life is about trust. From the day we are born we are involved in situations that require trust. I was taught to hold a baby a certain way so they wouldn’t feel like they were going to fall. Later, as trust is developed, you can hold that same child in very precarious positions and they will laugh because of trust.

I remember one afternoon, when I was real young, our family joined some friends from the church and we all went to the lake. We were just going for a cook out and to have some fun together. The Garrett family had five kids, four of them boys. Then there was my brother David and I. Brother Garrett was always a lot of fun to be around and it wasn’t long until he ended up in the water, fully clothed.

All of us boys had been carefully instructed by out mothers to stay out of the water, it would be a long wet ride home otherwise. Brother Garrett was having a great time (his mother wasn’t there to keep him out of the water.) He told us to stand on top of this large rock and to jump in and he would catch us. None of his four boys would jump to him. They were all afraid that he wouldn’t catch them. I remember saying, “I’ll jump!” Without any hesitation I jumped, which really surprised him.

I trusted him completely. There was never a doubt in my mind that he would catch me if I did what he said. So I jumped and he caught me.

In our relationship with God there are many times when we just have to jump. We have to put our trust completely in God and believe He will catch us.

The Psalmist said in the thirty first Psalm, “In thee O Lord do I put my trust, let me never be ashamed; deliver me in thy righteousness.”

A couple of the things that came to my attention were he told the Lord he was going to trust Him. He asked the Lord not to let him be disappointed or ashamed, which tells me he was concerned about the trust issue. He knew or trusted God to do what was right.

I have many times had to pray, Lord help my unbelief. I am trying to trust you but it sure is hard. Let me encourage you with this one last thought. I am not being flippant when I say, “If it wasn’t hard it wouldn’t be called a trial or a test.”

Keep your trust in Him, he will never disappoint you! Sometimes we just have to go ahead and jump!

God Bless!