Should I trust God for everything?

So many times, we tend to restrict God to specific aspects of our lives, especially the desperate times of our lives, like when we really need something, when the doctor gives a bad report or when you lose a job... you know those heart-wrenching, depressing times, right?

I've been there.

Where it felt like, "Okay God, fix this area for me."
But when it came to other areas, you say, "Nah, no need to worry about that one God; I'll fix it myself."

Things like taking a bath, having a meal or even heading out to work don't require revelation or prayer. You know you have to do those.

There are, however, other major moves in our lives where God is simply inevitable. You cannot do them without His leading and direction. Want to know why? Keep reading.

As believers, making moves without God leaves you at the mercy of wavering and being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, advice, counsel, suggestion or proposition, just like the waves of the sea.

...For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed (James 1:6b)

Back and forth. On shore and off shore. High tide and crashing waves. No decisive direction. Forever pushed around by the "environmental factors" and "forces of nature."

Is this you? Going along with every trend? Listening to every motivational speaker? Believing every nugget and quote on your social media feed? Clinging to generational fables about life?

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive (Ephesians 4:14)

Trust God for everything. Literally everything. That job. That relationship. That disease. That long-standing situation. Your children. Those details of your life that you think He doesn't care about - your car, your bills, your finances, your dreams, your projects. Everything. Trust God. Going by His dictate to you in all these will make you emerge with a mouth full of testimonies and victorious reports..

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Don't acknowledge Him in some of your ways. Acknowledge Him in all of your ways. Only then will He direct your paths. That's what the bible says. And in so doing, you will live superior over the elements of this world.

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