Trust and Obey

Psalm 37:3-8 (NIV) 
Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. 

Trust was my 'word' a few years ago. You know what I mean, the word God gives us to work on in a given year. Each January He seems to convict me on a different topic, and always in an area I am severely lacking. It astounds me how often the selected word will pop up.  

I will stumble across it in a daily devotional reading, and sense God is trying to get my attention. I dream of ways I can perfect this area so that by year's end I consider myself successful - or at least much improved.  

There are those years when that word is not one I want to deal with; like the season when submission was the focus. Not fun!

I am once again in a season where God is working on my trust issues. Giving up control of a few things, I can do; letting God lead me in some areas, I got that. But trusting God for EVERYTHING.  Whew, not easy at all. That means I must quit obsessing about my diet, my exercise (or lack of it), my job, my finances, my future. Oh, no, not that! 

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him...

Psalm 37:3-7