What really is TRUST?

Wednesday in the Word

"Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own.  Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He's the one who will keep you on track."
Proverbs 3:5-6 The Message Bible

I confess.  I am one of those people who try to figure out everything.  In my mind I think everything has to make sense...it has to be LOGICAL!

But through this journey we have been on the past couple of years, God is teaching me that this shows that I don't really TRUST Him.  The first time He dealt with me about this - I said, "What do you mean, Lord, that I don't trust you?!  I have given my life to you.  I have given my life to ministry!  One of my greatest strengths is being able to think through things and figure them out!!!"

Then God so gently brought to my heart and mind the fact that I wasn't willing to take a leap of faith onto the mission field... because I was trying to FIGURE it out.  I was trying to make it all LOGICAL.
The truth is - I was trusting in MYSELF to figure it out...and if I couldn't figure it out - then I wasn't willing to do it!

That day...over 2 years ago now...I surrendered to the Lord my logic.  I surrendered CONTROL.  Me being in control of my life.  Abandoning being able to KNOW how it was all going to work, and TRUSTING Him...REALLY trusting Him for the first time in my life....WITH my life. With my everything.

Do you also try to figure out everything?  What area is God calling you to trust Him in?