I Trust You As Long As I'm In Control

The following Scripture is the focus of today’s discussion on TRUST (the T in SANITY).

It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you, but if you trust the Lord, you are safe.
Proverbs 29:25 GNB

This is Part 5 of a 6 part discussion on SANITY. If you missed the previous articles, please take a moment and read them here…

Part 1 (Strength)

Part 2 (Acceptance)

Part 3 (New Life)

Part 4 (Integrity)

What do you think about this thing called trust?
Why do so many different people struggle with it?
Why do I struggle with it?
What is it about people that I simply do not trust?
What is it about GOD that I sometimes struggle to trust?

I like to THINK I trust God, yet when I act like I’M the one in control, I’m NOT trusting God, but in myself. And when it comes to trusting others? I’m too cynical. I convince myself that he or she is just going to fail or let me down, so why trust to begin with? In both cases, with God and with people, I miss the point ENTIRELY.

I can be so impatient with God that I’m willing to forego His BLESSING, in HIS time, for a mere shadow of what COULD BE, in MY time.
My view of people is so narrow that I miss out on the God who lives in them.

If that doesn’t sound like someone who is POWERLESS I don’t know what does. And it’s in this powerlessness I came to recognize that as much as I’d like to THINK I’m in control, as much as I’d like to THINK I can do it all, as much as I’d like to THINK I got this…I NEED God and I NEED others. Instead of trying to control everything, I had to stop pretending I was God and let Him do what only He can do.

If I was worried about what others thought of me, I wouldn’t be in recovery.
If I wasn’t in recovery, I wouldn’t be getting better.
If I wasn’t getting better, I’d be dead or on my way there.

As we continue in our journey, in our recovery, we learn to develop REAL friendships and when I say REAL I mean these people know all the crap from your past and don’t care because they’ve got their own and you know about it too.

Most importantly, we learn that we can trust God with more than our salvation. We learn to trust Him with our everyday lives, our every decision, our every thought, our every word. We learn that His ways are GREATER than ours. We learn that we can trust Him because He wants what’s BEST for us because ultimately He gets the glory and chances are someone else gets SAVED in the process.

That’s what TRUST can do.

Insanity will put you back into a cycle of using people and isolating yourself from any sort of meaningful relationship.
Sanity will open your heart to real intimacy, not just with others, but with the God who created you.

How are you doing with your TRUST?