Looking For Trust In All the Wrong Places

Looking For Trust In All the Wrong Places 

So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:31-33 New International Version

If you want to find godly trust, you have to look in the right places. When I find myself looking in the wrong places I find anything but a benevolent God.

Television news seems to portray God as an absentee landlord. In the newspaper God seems more like an untrustworthy scallywag that seeks to pilfer our joy and peace. Not long ago I spoke to a man about God. He felt that God should always say yes and as it seemed NO was the answer to a particular question; He summed God up as an ecclesiastical masochist that delights in our suffering. Looking for a trustworthy God in the midst of grief might be a mistake as well. In A Grief Observed, C.S Lewis said that when he lost his wife to cancer, he went running to God “in desperation only to find a door slammed in your face and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.” Does this sound like a God who can be trusted?

I think this verse gives us an unusual place to look for godly trust. Jesus gives us an example of nature. Maybe almost jokingly with a smile on his face, Jesus asks,
"When is the last time you saw a bird worry about where to find worms?" "When is the last time you saw grass embarrassed at its shabby attire?" Then I imagine Jesus comforting our worries, saying that if God cares for these, don’t you think He will take pride in you, care for you? Don’t be so preoccupied with 'getting' that you forget to respond to what God has already been giving. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. My dad will take care of you, and I'll see to it myself, one nail at a time."

Now this sounds like a God I can trust.