Why is it so difficult for humans to fully and completely trust God?

We are all at different places in our walk with the Lord. Some are able to more often than not, let go and fully trust in God’s plan and some of us cling on tightly to our lives in this world and won’t quite give it away to Him.

Overall, when I think about it, I do really trust God. I believe that he is who he says that he is and that he has done what he says he has done, and that he will do what he says he will do.

But it’s a little more complicated than that.

My natural reaction when something happens isn’t often to pray about it and hand it over to God. It’s often to try and figure out a way that I can fix it myself, or try to solve the problem in my own human ways.

So many times throughout scripture, God tells his people to “remember” his promises and what he has done. Why? Because we forget! We always forget what he has done!

Take a look at the Israelites (I REALLY feel like I have posted something like this before, so sorry if I have). God constantly provided for them over and over again to escape Egypt, to be cared for in the wilderness, and to eventually reach the promised land. But what do they do instead? Grumble their way through it all and complain about the things that they want or need, and they turn away and create false idols and sin their way through their journey. I mean these people witnessed some of the most incredible miracles of God and they freaking build a golden calf to worship! “What is wrong with them!?”, we say when we read through the Old Testament.

But aren’t we exactly like them? When we complain because our lives aren’t the way that we want them to be, or because we feel that we don’t have enough of this or that. We worship false idols with our beloved technology, or with the food that we eat, or with the time that we spend on things that we put before God.

Why can’t we just remember what God has said to us? God keeps his promises. Always. God will remember us and what he promised. God has promised us so many things throughout scripture, and he has always followed through on everything he has said.

All we have to do is remember.

God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. – Exodus 2:24

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today. – Deuteronomy 15:15

He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations. – 1 Chronicles 15:16

I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. – Psalm 77:11

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.- Ezekiel 16:60

Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise,without hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ -Ephesians 2: 12-13