In today's society, your life isn’t together if you don’t know have a plan for every single aspect of your life. If you don’t believe me, go ask any 17-year-old girl what her plans are, and she’ll tell you every detail of how her life is going to go right down to the names of her kids. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with this, I have my own dreams. There does comes a point, though, to where we shouldn’t lean on our own blueprint for our lives, and we must trust.
Oh, trusting. It’s a pretty common idea, and almost every Christian song today mentions it.
“Spirit lead me, where my trust is without borders.” -Hillsong United
It seems easy on the surface, but when you fully submerge yourself into a relationship with Christ, your level of trust must change also.Though, what does it mean to trust, and how far must our trust go. Trusting is when you’re willing to jeopardize everything in your comfort zone and still know that he’s got it. To move to a new place, to take a loved one off life support, get through a breakup, or make a hard business decision. While these instances are on different levels to all of us, the comfort he gives can get us through anything big or small. Trust just isn’t something that we turn to when we forgot to study for an exam. Trusting is not worrying. Trust is not having bitterness when we don’t get what we want. It’s giving God control of every aspect of your life and accepting the outcome, no matter what.
You see, I’ve always had a hard time with trusting. It’s my life after all, and I should know what’s best for me, right? It’s hard to recognize that trusting isn’t fun. It makes you lose friends, it causes you to go without things you think you need to have, you can’t go to the same places as everyone else. There have been times in my life where my own decisions take me to a place where I don’t know what to do or who to turn to so I put my trust in him, and it’s almost easy. It’s when everything is going right that makes it difficult. When I already have my own friends, but he wants me to reach out to those two girls who sit alone every day, or when I already have plans for the weekend, but someone needs my help. It’s frustrating to do the right thing and step out of my comfort zone without trust. With trust, though, I do what he wants willingly.
Trust is something that takes a lot of time to truly develop to the point where you are okay with every trial you're brought to, but it is something that is worth waiting for. To have that “trust without borders”, you must make some sacrifices. In the end, it’s all worthwhile, though, because to have complete trust is to finally have peace.
