TRUST FALL

A “trust fall” is an activity in which a person closes their eyes and deliberately falls backwards, trusting someone standing behind to catch them.  It can be a part of a game just for fun or it has also been used as a team-building exercise in relationship or corporate training.  Even knowing and trusting the person standing behind you, it can still be a bit frightening.

I like to think that I trust God enough to believe that He is at work in my daily life in such a way that I can just let go of all my concerns and fall on Him; knowing He has my back.  I want to trust God without hesitation daily, but I know that I am not entirely there yet one hundred percent.

We can think that we are fully trusting God in every area of our life but then a problem comes up in a relationship, and we react to catch ourselves.  There can be pressure from responsibilities that we aren’t sure how to handle so we devise our own plan rather than waiting and trusting God. It is hard to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord”.  We like to get our hands or mouths in there and “do or say something”.

The Bible has a lot to say about trusting God and is full of encouragement.

“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

“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.”  Psalm 28:7

My mother had a decorative plate hanging on the wall in the kitchen when I was growing up.  I still often think of the poem that was inscribed on it.

Said the robin to the sparrow, “I should really like to know why these anxious
Human beings rush around and worry so.”
Said the sparrow to the robin, “Friend, I think that it must be that they have no
Heavenly Father such as cares for you and me.” 
Elie Cheney

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” Matthew 6:26 

I encourage you to practice a few more “Trust Falls” with the Lord. He will always be there for you!