An unique experience I had Thursday and today really showed me what trust and faith were. I had a situation where I thought something, and from everything I saw, I was right. I discussed it with someone, who told me I was wrong, and asked me to trust her. She offered no proof that she was right, but she asked me to trust her.
When the same question arose today, I pushed away my own thoughts. She'd asked me to trust her. My eyes told me one thing was true, but she told me to trust her and believe that exactly the opposite thing was true. Putting aside my own ideas, I told myself that I should believe her. She knew more about this than I did.
That was trust. I stopped looking at what I thought I could see to be true, and looked at the situation from her perspective. Believing she was right and I was wrong because I had confidence that she knew better than I.
Simply put, Trust is learning to lean on another's wisdom.
If I can trust someone who is mortal and has a limited point of view, how much more can I trust my heavenly Father, who is infinite in knowledge and understands not only what is happening, but what will happen next? And if I can put such trust in Him, how much more confident and at peace will I be as I walk the path of life?
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