As described in the Week 1 devotional, my faith and health journey began when God warned me through my reading of Psalm 112:7 that bad news was coming: “He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.” A significant part of my faith journey became learning to trust in the Lord. That learning process was going to take more than a decade. I had a lot to learn.
The Oxford Dictionary describes two different meanings for trust: the belief that somebody/something is good, sincere, honest, etc. and will not try to harm or trick you; to believe what somebody says even though you do not have any proof or evidence to show that it is true
Here is how the Israelites being led out of captivity in Egypt trusted God:
And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
The Israelites, in Exodus 14:31, put their trust in the Lord because they were eyewitnesses to His mighty hand at work in their lives. But here is what they said to Moses when Pharoah’s armies were closing in on them at the Red Sea:
They said to Moses, what have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!
The Israelites trusted in God only when the Oxford Dictionary’s first definition was immediately obvious, but not under the second definition. However, they had little time to get to know God when these events happened. Their faith had not matured at this point. As we will see in the following Weekly devotionals, a mature faith will trust God unconditionally.
