Breathe Again: A 7-Day Planናሙና

There’s a situation in your life that looks unchangeable, set in stone, sealed in concrete, that’s causing you stress and anxiety. Trusting God seems nearly impossible. You need Him to fix your problem, but the longer it goes unchanged, the more you lose faith that He’ll come through. 

Discouraged, the familiar feelings of condemnation remind you that if you really love God, trust should come more easily. But it feels safer, more empowering, to try to control your situation and will things to change. Your biggest fear is letting go and God choosing something other than what you want. 

Any of this sound familiar? Yeah, for me too. Still, God’s age-old answer to our problems is found in scriptures like Psalm 62, which directs us to trust Him at all times. Even Abraham had to learn the lesson of trust to move forward through things he didn’t understand. 

But how is the at all times kind of trust that Psalm 62 refers to possible? Is it some kind of test or is there a deeper meaning we don’t see on the surface? 

The word trust in Psalm 62 refers to having confidence. We develop our confidence in God by discovering his trustworthiness through intimate attachment, the way a vine and branch are connected as one (John 15). “Attachment to Jesus is the hinge on which the door of trust hangs.”

And isn’t that just like Jesus to bypass rules and formulas and bring trusting Him in every nuance of life back down to the simplicity of relationship? 

Today take time to strengthen your attachment to Jesus. Talk to Him everywhere you go. He’s always present, listening, and whispering trust Me.