Quotes about Trust

In order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

But God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

His agenda for our lives that God will guard, protect, and advance. We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

Our lives are also cluttered with a lot of "if onlys." "If only I had done this," or "if only that had not happened." But again, God has no "if onlys." God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.

We can put this down as a bedrock truth: God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.

What was it that caused such a dramatic mood change in the heart of the writer? He turns from the circumstances at hand to the Lord.

If God controls the circumstances of the sparrow, how much more does He control the circumstances that affect us?

We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.

We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.