I Want to Trust You, but I Don't by Lysa TerKeurst

Author:Lysa TerKeurst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

I fear trusting God with ______________, because He allowed ______________ to happen in my past.

I fear trusting God with ______________, because if He doesn’t come through for me in the way I want Him to, I will suffer ______________.

I fear trusting God with ______________, because I don’t think God will really ______________.

I fear trusting God with the suffering and heartbreak I’ll go through if ______________ happens, and I fear I won’t ever ______________.

What if expressing my true feelings to God is a beautiful act of trusting God?

I recently received an email from a friend who was helping me process expressing to God what I really feel. She said, “I’m reminded of a quote sometimes attributed to Sigmund Freud: ‘Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.’ The more I tried to bury my doubts, the uglier the doubts became. Acknowledging them instead of stuffing them down brought healing and new growth.” How does this tie into trust? Well, verbalizing my doubts to Him is an expression of trust in God. If I can trust God with doubts about Him, then I can trust Him with anything.

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