Some days I ran shorter distances and some distances I ran longer, all building up to the longest day of my running on the actual day of the marathon. I sought out the best methods to train: was it just running, was it cross training, how much did I need to run and how often? But eventually I had to get started on the practice. When I began training to run a marathon, years ago, I studied first. It is like a runner who just starts out and can only go 1 mile before almost collapsing by the roadside. Trust grows I guess that is a by-product of it being a verb, an action. It is when we waver that we must double down on our trust. If I miss this chance, then how will things turn out? I want this, isn’t it good? Eventually, I may begin to think like David did, ‘I am cut off from your sight’ and he has forgotten me. My mind fills with doubts and questions, like: Am I supposed to just do something? I need an answer now. But when he doesn’t answer soon, I waver. I tell myself to stay the course and He will answer soon. I find it easier to put wing to prayer when my issues come to mind again. Waiting for a few days is not usually the problem, at least for me. Other times we don’t hear anything and don’t know if we go on or go back. Sometimes he tells us no just as directly, by closing doors or not having that sense of peace. Sometimes he does answer us directly – a sense of peace, a new job offer, a good car at a great price, and so on. We want God to tell us exactly what to do or how to handle something. Generally, we wait in expectation, we have prayed about: something that we see coming (a promotion, our kid moving into middle school from primary school), something that we see missing from our lives (a spouse, financial stability), something we are in the middle of (illness, harassment), or something else. ![]() Yet trust seems to be hardest when I am waiting. Based on that, we have put our confidence in God because I believe he will do as he says. In that article, I stated that trust is ‘to rely on and have firm belief in the character of a person to do as they say’ and that I think of it more as an action, rather than an object or thing. Several months ago, we considered what trusting God means and how it is presented in the Bible.
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