Do You Trust Him?

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It’s so easy to trust God when the facts are clear, and it looks like everything will be okay, isn’t it? But what about when everything we see tells us it’s time to freak out and take matters into our own hands?


Almost six years ago, as I watched my son die in an emergency room, I chose to trust God. I had always felt he would die, but that night when Isaiah’s neurosurgeon told us in at least three different ways that Isaiah could die on an operating table, it became real. 


In my heart, I believed he would die, but I begged God to save him anyway. I begged God to change His mind. I had no idea if He would honor my request, but I trusted Him. I trusted Him to take care of me, my marriage, and my family even if we lost Isaiah. 

I’ve been asked many times, how I was able to place that kind of trust in God. The only thing I know is that I made a decision to trust Him. I knew I had no control over our situation, so my best option was to hand it over to my Creator. I trusted Him so much that I had peace that I could never have imagined having in that situation.


I was able to trust God with Isaiah’s life that night because as early as when I found out I was pregnant with him, as well as my other children, I acknowledged that they were His. I acknowledged that they were on loan, and I was blessed to be chosen to take care of them for as long as the Lord allowed me to. I trusted God before I was faced with having to make a choice.


God is so much bigger than we can possibly imagine. We can trust that He sees all the pieces of our lives and how they will fit together. We can trust him with each one.


Isaiah‬ ‭55:8-9 explains: ‬“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

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We will not understand so much of what God allows to happen, but we can still trust Him with every part of our lives. 

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