trust (again)

Why is it so hard to completely trust God? Why do we as humans think that trust is some sort of ability- a skill that must be honed to perfection before it can be utilized? 


Perhaps it is because it gives us an excuse to avoid using that 'tool' until it has arrived at perfection- which we know will never happen (but that's the point of excuses, isn't it?). So, we never fully trust God because, honestly, we don't think that we think we know how, and we know that we don't know all there is to know about it. Two words: so what?


Why do we have this conception that God only wants us to do what He calls us to if it is in a perfect way? "I shouldn't witness to my co-worker yet; I don't have that one track memorized yet." "I don't want to start reading through that book of the Bible yet- I don't think I have time to read a chapter everyday." Trust me, God would much rather have our co-workers hear the Gospel now than in several months when we have finally gotten around to memorizing that track; God wants us to enjoy reading His word- He doesn't necessarily ask us to hold to the legalism of reading the Bible at a certain time every morning. After all, God opens up opportunities to witness and to read and to love because He wants us to trust HIM in those situations instead of relying on our own imperfections and inconsistencies. 


In the same way, we cannot wait to trust God until we completely understand Him or until we completely understand trust, one, because we never will do either and two, because our God is a god of believing and trusting Him in the NOW. God is trustable whether or not we trust Him, yet He wants a relationship with us that includes trust. 



 "You will keep in perfect peace
    the mind [that is] dependent [on You],
    for it is trusting in You.
  Trust in the LORD forever,
    because in Yah, the LORD, is an everlasting rock!"
                                 -Isaiah 26:3-4


This is one of my favorite verses. God is an unchanging rock- firm and steady and faithful and true. We have no reason NOT to trust in Him today! We should have no doubt that He will continually show us how to trust Him more fully. 
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"Hezekiah trusted in the LORD God of Israel; not one of the kings of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.  He held fast to the LORD and did not turn from following Him but kept the commandments the LORD had commanded Moses."
                                - 2 Kings 18:5-6