Defined

One of the assignments for the composition class I am teaching this semester is a paragraph of definition. One of the topics on the list from which the students could choose was Trust. Here is one paragraph that stood out:

"Trust is not something well-understood, but it is the hinge upon which the Christian life swings, the cable tied to the Anchor that grips the Rock. Trust is not understanding, yet neither is it blind obedience. Trust is knowing Who God is and believing Him. It is forsaking your own attempts to remedy the bleakness and blackness of your own heart and accepting the righteousness of Christ. It is grappling with the wisdom of an Almighty God and at last surrendering to His unknowable omniscience. Trust is a complete relinquishment of your own control and a humble offering of that control to a mighty Savior. It is crushing the ugly, venomous head of worry through the surety of God's promises. It is turning over an aching, shattered heart to he Great Physician and allowing Him to heal. Trust is giving up all human reason, all rationalization, all fleshly intellect, and believing the love of God. Trust is bold defiance to the deceitful wiles of Satan because the Spirit of God dwells within you. Trust is taking the hand of the One whose loving-kindness is better than life and obediently following without reserve because He promises to work all things together for good. In its simplest essence, trust is resting in the Truth."