Trusting and Believing: Devotions From Time of GraceSample

What Is It Like to Trust God?
I can overcome

I would love to look at my troubles as though I were in an airplane. At 35,000 feet, even the mighty Rocky Mountains don’t look so tough. Snow is pretty. Roaring rivers are just beautiful blue ribbons. The desert is simply a beautiful red-brown carpet.

Alas, in my life I am not flying over my troubles. I bump into every one because I am not traveling through my life in a plane. I’m walking next to my oxen and my covered wagon. But here is God’s promise to me (and to you): “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me” (Psalm 50:15).

Crossing the great American prairie was a marathon, not a sprint. My life is a marathon too, and God loves me so much that he allows hardships to toughen me for the long haul. But I will make it because my God is with me.