Do I Trust God To Be God?

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.

—Isaiah 26:3–4

After my dad left, I tried to prop up what was left of me so I wouldn’t collapse into the broken place inside. Good grades. Achievements and accolades. Fun friends and good times. Boys who made me feel special. I tried to steady myself with anything that helped me feel better.

But it wasn’t just a better feeling that I needed; I needed a completely new way of defining my identity. I needed truth to inform what I believed about myself. Otherwise, what I believed about myself would become a fragile, flimsy, faulty foundation. The beliefs we hold should hold us up even when life feels like it’s falling apart. So my old patterns of thought had to be torn out, and a new way of looking at the core of who I am using God’s truth had to be put into place.

Our identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to us. Only then can we find a stability beyond what our feelings will ever allow. The closer we align our truth with His truth, the more closely we identify with God—and the more our identity really is in Him.

In our previous two devotions we stabilized our identities by replacing old feelings with the solid truths that God is good and God is good to us. Now we have to answer one final question: do I trust God to be God?

Our identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to us.

This will not just stabilize our identities, but it will fully anchor us. I love these verses, Isaiah 26:3–4:

You will keep in perfect peace

those whose minds are steadfast,

because they trust in you.

Trust in the LORD forever,

for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.

The Hebrew word for steadfast used in verse 3 is samak, which means “to brace, uphold, support.” Amazing, huh? In other words, those with minds fully braced, upheld, and supported by truth and trust in God will be kept in perfect peace.

Will I trust that God sees and knows things I don’t? Will I trust Him when I don’t understand? When circumstances are hard? When people betray or reject me? When my heart gets broken? Will I trust Him to the point where I fully turn the control of my life and those I love over to Him?

If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.

I don’t have to figure my present circumstances out. I don’t have to know all the whys and what-ifs. All I have to do is trust. So in quiet humility and without a personal agenda, I make the decision to let God sort it all out. I sit quietly in His presence and simply say, “God, I want Your truth to be the loudest voice in my life. Correct me. Comfort me. Come closer still. And I will trust. God, You are good at being God.”

Dear Lord, I am so grateful that You are God and I am not! I trust in Your goodness. Thank You for the peace You give me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.