Trust When It Doesn't Make Sense
Faith past your understanding.
Sometimes God's plans look like a mess up close.
The big idea
Faith is trusting God even when his story doesn't add up to yours yet.
What does “Trust When It Doesn't Make Sense” walk through?
Don't Lean on Your Understanding
Proverbs 3:5 · KJV
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In plain English
Rely on God fully, not just your own viewpoint. He sees what you cannot see.
The View From Below
From your angle, the story can look broken. From God's angle, it's a chapter — not the ending. Trust isn't pretending you understand. It's believing he does, while you don't.
His Ways Higher
Isaiah 55:9 · KJV
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.
In plain English
My ways are as far above yours as the sky is above the ground.
“Trust comes before understanding. Almost every time.”
What He's Done
When you can't trust him with the future, look at what he's already done. The cross is the proof of his love. Whatever you can't make sense of today, he's already proven the kind of God he is.
Pray
Father, I don't understand this. I trust you anyway. Hold me where my logic gives out.
Write it down
What in your life right now doesn't make sense? Will you trust God with it before you understand it?
You finished: Trust When It Doesn't Make Sense
Trust is the move you make in the dark. He's there. Walk.
Which passages does this journey use?
2 passages, drawn from Proverbs 3:5, Isaiah 55:9. Every verse appears here in the King James text with a plain-English line beside it, so you can read it without a commentary open. Allow about 5 minutes for the whole thing, or 6 short sittings.
- Proverbs 3:5
- Isaiah 55:9
Read any of these in full on the complete KJV, or look the wording up independently at Blue Letter Bible.
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