A pitfall to trusting God, which we are prone to fall into, is to turn to God in trust in the greater crisis experience of life while seeking to work through the minor difficulties ourselves. A disposition to trust in ourselves is part of our sinful nature. It sometimes takes a major crisis, or at least a moderate one, to turn us toward the Lord. A mark of Christian maturity is to continually trust the Lord in the minutiae of daily life. If we learn to trust God in the minor adversities, we will be better prepared to trust him in the major ones.
Jerry Bridges in Trusting God, excerpted in Be Still My Soul, edited by Nancy Guthrie, p. 112.
Here’s a great 27 second video Jerry Bridges did for Desiring God last fall. It highlights why we can trust in God through Jesus Christ:
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