What is trust? The dictionary definition is a well-being and security which results from having something or someone in whom to place confidence. The feeling of being safe or secure. We also use the word “faith” as it refers to complete trust.Isaiah was chosen by God to deliver an important message to the Israelites, but it was bad news. In fact he was overwhelmed with this bad news. He says, For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me ….I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see” ( Isa. 21:3).He was sick with this bad news. We all understand that as we all fear bad news. Yet, Isaiah’s faith stayed strong despite bad news because he believed in God’s purpose. Isaiah said later, “Yet I leave it all in the LORD’s hand; I will trust God for my reward.”We all desire to have security, confidence, safety. Maybe that’s why Jesus says about little children, “He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 18:2–3).God wants us to put our trust in Him, and we need trust. Without having that security, confidence, and safety then we are filled with despair, hopelessness, misery, gloom. But trust gives us hope. “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1).Consider a woman that Jesus healed in Mark 5. A large crowd had gathered around Jesus and people from all over came to him and pressed against him. In the crowd was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for 12 years. She was hoping for healing. I’m sure she had visited many doctors and had spent all she had on treatments. But she heard of one more hope for healing.Instead of asking and bothering the great teacher and healer, she simply came up behind him and touched His clothes. That demonstrates the trust she had; it shows the hope she had.Trust is so critical in living a productive, faithful life. So who will you trust?This may be the most important question to answer. The simple answer is the Lord. Proverbs 3:5–6 tells us, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your ...
