What Is The Distinction Between Faith And Trust?

 

 

My pastor Dan Slagle also did our worship service yesterday and I got to tell you I really enjoy it when he does.  As he was leading us in worship during our first service he was speaking about coming here to glorify Him, for His glory, invite Him.  Those were some words he had used.  In my heart I was asking God, I need to see your glory in a couple areas of my life.

 

Then

 

I got to thinking, what is the distinction between faith and trust?

The biggest deferred dream of my heart, as you already know, is that of a true freedom of my past with a completeness of my heart. Right now, I am knee deep in accomplishing this, although so very difficult at times.

 

As with anything that you are waiting for, there is a tension between the anticipation, and not letting what is not yet, distract you from what is now.   I’m finding more I get tense, the more I leave at His altar.

 

 God has a rationale for each day and if we are seduced by the idea of what will happen tomorrow, we will not learn what we need to learn today, and we miss out on so many things in the now.

 

So we walk this tightrope of hope and trust…. or is it faith?

Sometimes in this battle to find the middle ground, I can be very hard on myself. I think sometimes that if there continues to be hope in what is ahead that it means that I am not content in the now.

 

So I have been working to discipline my mind to stay in the now… except it is crippling my ability to dream big dreams but when I dream big dreams… they include the things that I am hoping for.

All that to say that sometimes high hopes can be misinterpreted as lack of faith! Does that make any sense? Almost like, if I trusted God fully, I wouldn’t have the need to rely on the hope and trust.

This is one of those things that is going to twist me around for a few days.

Here’s the question then….

What is the distinction between faith and trust and how do you balance the two?