Trust

Trust: To have or place confidence in; depend on: To expect with assurance: To believe: To grant discretion to confidently

Job said, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him" (13:15, KJV). That kind of radical trust pleases the Lord. While we may not look forward to adversity, we know when we get through it we will be a better servant for the Lord, and ultimately isn't that your goal?

Trusting God, Job went through his problems, and came out the other side. We can always count on God to see us through to the other side. We cannot see the other side with our physical eyes, but we can see it with our spiritual eyes -- with the eye of faith."The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17, KJV).As with Job, God allows us to be tested, although He is not the author of evil, which is Satan's job description. When trials come our way, as they do in a fallen world, let us echo Peter:"6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" (1 Peter 1:6-7, KJV).