Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding Proverbs 3:5

TRUST: to place confidence in; rely on; one in which confidence is placed; to hope or expect confidently. Merriam Webster Online Dictionary

As I watch my granddaughter play, I see that she is oblivious to things that might hurt her. She is 7 months old and her curious little hands want to touch everything. As parents (and grandparents) it is our job to keep her safe and she trusts us to do so. She is totally dependent on us to provide food, clothing, comfort and protect her from what will hurt her.

God does the same for us. He provides and protects us. Just like my granddaughter trusts us, we should trust God.

As adults, it is more difficult to surrender control and trust another. Read the lyrics to the song below, it sums it up much better than I.

When we walk with the Lord
In the light of His word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.

Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

Not a burden we bear,
Not a sorrow we share,
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief or a loss,
Not a frown or a cross,
But is blest if we trust and obey.

But we never can prove
The delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows,
For the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.

Then in fellowship sweet
We will sit at His feet,
Or we'll walk by His side in the way;
What He says we will do,
Where He sends we will go;
Never fear, only trust and obey.

The hymn was inspired in 1886 when the composer of the music, Daniel B. Towner (1850-1919), was the music leader during one of Dwight L. Moody’s famous revivals. “Mr. Moody was conducting a series of meetings in Brockton, Massachusetts, and I had the pleasure of singing for him there. One night a young man rose in a testimony meeting and said, ‘I am not quite sure—but I am going to trust, and I am going to obey.’ I just jotted that sentence down, and sent it with a little story to the Rev. J. H. Sammis, a Presbyterian minister. He wrote the hymn, and the tune was born.” Taken from Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church website; October 22, 2023

OBEY: to follow the commands or guidance of; to conform to or comply with. Merriam Webster Online Dictionary

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6