Why does the Bible command Christians to trust in the Lord with all our hearts? (Proverbs 3:5). That command means the Lord wants you to trust totally the goodness of his plan for your future marriage (or future singleness). He wants you to trust totally the wisdom of his plan for where you should go to college. He wants you to trust totally the love of his plan, set out in Scripture, for the way you use your body and your mind.
We might ask, however, why the Lord is worthy of such absolute trust as Proverbs 3:5 describes. After all, none of the human begins around us are trustworthy all the time. Our friends lie to us, and even our parents fail us from time to time. What makes the Lord so different from human begins?
The answer is that just about everything about the Lord makes him different from human beings. You can trust God with all your heart because unlike human beings, he knows all things perfectly, including all future things (Job 37:16; 1 John 3:20; Isaiah 44:6-8), and he will thus never lack the information necessary to make the best possible plans for your life. You can trust God with all your heart because he loves you with infinite and perfect love (John 17:23), as most clearly seen in the death of Jesus Christ the Son on the cross for your sins (1 John 3:16). If God’s love for you is so great that he did not spare even his beloved Son for your sake, then surely you can trust the Lord to give you everything else you really need (Romans 8:32). Moreover, you can trust God with all your heart because he is good (Psalm 136:1), and all his plans for your life are therefore “good and acceptable and prefect” (Romans 12:2). Finally, you can trust God with all your heart because he has all power to carry out his sovereign will for your life (Genesis 18:17; Jeremiah 32:17; Romans 11:36), and no one will ever be able to thwart his good and loving plans for you (Daniel 4:35).
Think about where in your life right now you are wavering in trusting God. Are you failing to trust him for some future supply of wisdom you know you need, or do you fear he will fail you when it comes to providing for your financial needs in the future? Consider that in order for God to break your trust, he would, in the words of one of my seminary professors, have to de-God himself! And the Lord cannot ever de-God himself. He cannot fail you. So like the father at the foot of the mountain of Transfiguration, ask the Lord to build your trust in him. Say with that father to the Lord, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24).
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