Question:
I know I need to trust God, but I find it very difficult. I am the type of person that likes to have evidence and needs things to make sense logically in order to be able to understand them. I want to trust God, but I simply don't know how to. Can you please help me? How can I learn to trust God?
Answer:
In order to attain a full understanding of this question we need to break it down into smaller parts. How do you know you need to trust God? Is it a feeling inside of you of unknown origin or did someone tell you that you need to trust God? If it is because someone told you that you need to trust God, that may or may not be true to you. Don't believe anyone who tells you that you need to do something, no one can possibly know what path you are meant to take but for yourself. Hold on to what allows your peace to flow, let go of all that hinders your peace.
If it is a feeling inside of you of unknown origin, that is God's way of telling you that you are not trusting in God at the present moment. The feeling of doubt is there because you aren't trusting God. We see and feel what we are looking to see or feel. If we watch a scary movie, we look for fear and we find it. When we are trying to trust God, we see and feel doubt. The doubt is due to the concept we have created within our mind that says we are separate from God and can somehow be abandoned by God and therefore we don't Trust God. Since we see doubt, we see doubt's dualistic nature which is trying to trust God. We try to trust God because we doubt God, and we doubt God because we try to trust God. Bit of a catch 22.
Luckily there is a solution, the is an answer to how to trust God. It is very simple, at first it may not seem logical but if you allow yourself to meditate on the solution, you will see with all logic and wisdom that it makes sense and that it can and does work. The answer is to stop trying to trust God. You cannot trust God when you are trying to trust God, that is not logical in of itself. Think of a person you trust completely, could be past, present, or even fictional. Since you trust that person, you do not need to try to trust them. You just do. You trust someone because they have shown you time and time again that you can trust them. You have no reason to try to trust them, since they are always giving trust. Trusting God is the same thing. You already trust God, you just forgot which is ok, God having created us is very aware of our short-term memory.
God is constantly showing us that we can trust him, it is only when we are trying to trust God, we make invisible God's show of trustworthiness. Do not try to trust God, it is already there, you just forgot. Every time you try to trust God, you reinforce the belief that you don't. Next time you think or feel that you need to trust God, simply say to yourself (either quietly or our loud)
"I trust God, this is just a past belief working its way up and out of me. I need do nothing."
Get in the practice of doing that when you feel that need or urge arise. Commit to it and try your best, nothing more is ever needed than what your best is in any given moment. It will not take very long at all before you start seeing God pouring his trustworthiness down all around you and you will wonder how you could've ever thought that you didn't trust God. You will quite literally laugh out loud when you see the absurdity that we humans go through with our doubt. Peace and Love!