From the Editors September 14, 1992 Issue

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Trusting God is naturally coupled with faith. But is it reasonable to expect people blindly to put their faith in God—or anything else, for that matter? Blind faith really has no sound basis, because it essentially accepts that God's activity and influence are an utter mystery. And yet faith should be rich with inspiration and understanding.

A knowledge of God—even understanding just a hint of what constitutes divinity—gives us something much more solid to rely on in solving life's problems. The faith that actually comprehends God and man's relationship to Him can move "mountains" of obstruction from our thoughts and lives. In the Bible, Christ Jesus said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

Trust, then, needs to move farther than blind, ungrounded faith. Trust develops through prayer and revelation—the revealing of the nature of God and creation that perfectly represents Him. For many, this revelation—this spiritual understanding—comes through humbly listening for God's direction and by studying deeply what is set forth in the Bible, especially the example of Christ Jesus. Considering Jesus' works, we can appreciate something of the level of real trust he must have had in God. From him we can learn what we can trust, and what trust actually is.

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