by Tammy Tkach We do a lot of trusting every day. We trust the sun will come up in the morning and will set in the evening. We trust it will stay in its orbit, along with the other planets, including Earth. We trust in the universe, that even though we can't see what's out there, we know it's there and everything is in its proper place and order. We trust in many things we can't see. We trust in the properties of water. We don't even stop to think about how water freezes from the top down, rather than from the bottom up like other liquids. This property allows lakes and oceans to store heat, which helps support life on earth. We trust air. Air contains all the necessary gases for plant and animal life. Without air, we'd have no clouds, no rain and the temperature of earth would swing from blazing to freezing every day. We also would not be able to breathe. People who don't believe in God trust in all these things, and many others as well. So why is it so hard to trust that God exists and is all-powerful and all-knowing? Is it easier to believe everything happened by chance? Did intricate things like the human brain just happen to come together, accidentally forming a more powerful "computer" than a computer? Yeah, right. Maybe people have trouble trusting in God because he's invisible. Or maybe because they (we) can't control him. It would be easier to trust him if he were more predictable. Or even if he acted a little more like us. God has given us choices concerning him and we all exercise those choices whether or not we believe in him. We can choose not to believe. We can choose to believe but to believe in our own version of him. We can remake him in our own image and then expect him to act accordingly. We can trust him as long as he does things for us and makes life work out our way. Or we can trust that he is and that he will be God. We can trust in his love and grace and that he will never change. We can believe he is bigger, smarter, stronger, wiser, kinder and more patient than we can imagine. We can let God be God. We can stop trying to push him out of the way so we can work things out ourselves. We can trust his sovereignty. We can quote Job: "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know" (Job 42:3, NIV) and then we can shut our mouths.