I Choose Today to Trust God Beyond What I Can See

Have you ever looked back on a situation and thought, “If I had known then what I know now, I would have done things differently”?

Maybe you rushed into a decision, trusted the wrong advice, or took matters into your own hands—only to realize later that you didn’t have the full picture. That’s the challenge of trust. We can only see so much, yet we try to make sense of things on our own. But what if we trusted the One who sees everything from the very beginning?

When we don’t trust God, we are trusting ourselves. The problem with that is our limited ability to see. We can only see in our box, in a big room of boxes, that is one of many rooms, filled with other’s boxes, in a house. But God sees the whole house, what is going on in every box and how they interact. He sees what is coming, knows what is best for us, and prepares us for our good and His glory.

This is why Scripture reminds us:“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.”(Proverbs 3:5-6)

His glory is one full of mercy, who is tender and kind. He is gracious, slow to get angry, faithful, and full of unfailing love‭‭(Exodus‬ ‭34‬:‭6‬). When we trust God who is so intrinsically good, and only wants what is good for us, why do we insist on trusting our own judgment, our own wisdom from a box?

Is it that bad things have happened to us and we blame God for those bad things? Or at the very least, we are angry because He should have stopped it from happening?

The truth is God has always given us a choice of who we will trust. Because we either choose to trust Him or we choose to trust in ourselves or others (who only see within their own boxes).

Trusting is a choice we make in every situation, in all circumstances. For example, when my son died, I had a choice to make: Would I blame God and refuse to trust Him with my immeasurable grief, or would I lean on my own understanding? One leads to a path of healing, the other leads to a path of despair. I know in my life, trusting in God’s goodness has proven to be the right choice.

God doesn’t just see the house but also built it, sustains it, and knows how each box (person, situation) fits into His greater plan. And His ultimate plan is that we should all choose to trust Him, and spend eternity with Him and His infinite goodness and overwhelming love. I think that is a better plan than anything else I can think of. What about you? What do you think of His plan? Will you trust His plan even when you don’t see the whole picture?

Ask yourself: In what area of my life am I struggling to trust God’s bigger picture? What is one step I can take today to surrender my control to Him?