I Want to Trust You, but I Don't: Moving Forward When You’re Skeptical of Others, Afraid of What God Will Allow, and Doubtful of Your Own Discernment

by Lysa TerKeurst

It is okay to need more information. It is okay to ask questions and verify what is true. It is okay to be honest about what we can and cannot handle.

Our present discernment reminds us to investigate.

It’s the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–25 CSB). Look for the fruit in someone’s actions, and you won’t have to wade through their words.

I’m realizing that I attach a great deal of my trust in God to my desire for things to turn out like I think they should.

the absence of justice isn’t evidence of the absence of God.

We are all on a journey. God is with us. God is for us.

Doing things God’s way and in God’s timing is the right way and the right timing.

Trying to carry the weight of holding everything and everybody together is a role God never called us to carry.

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34)

“Trauma isn’t an event that happens. It’s how you process the event.”