A TEST OF FAITH

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 3:6-7, NLT)

Faith and trust are not the same thing. 

I once heard say that faith is believing something, but trust is acting on your belief. The example given was, seeing a chair and having faith that it is sturdy enough to support me if I sit on it. Trust is the act of demonstrating that faith by actually sitting down on it 

Because I tend to get lost when driving, I usually use my GPS even when I'm going somewhere I've been before. It makes the ride so much more relaxing because I can trust it to get me where I need to go, even if I get distracted and miss a turn.

The other day I was running late for an appointment and the voice on the GPS started directing me to go in an unfamiliar direction which I had never taken to get to this destination before. 

There was a moment of panic. Could I maybe have entered the address to my destination wrong? Should I make the turn I was being told to make, or continue in the familiar direction?  What to do?

I decided to trust. 

Had I not, I later discovered, I would have gotten caught up in a bad traffic jam and not just been late, but have had to miss my appointment altogether.

A good lesson in why we need to always trust God with all our heart, even when it doesn't make sense. He is always in control and sees the whole picture, which we do not.