“Every day, God finds a way to ask us, ‘Do you trust Me?'” — Chuck Missler
Yesterday we explored the biblical command to “fear not” and how believers can live it out despite real and mounting threats. Today, I want to talk about something simpler and more personal: the daily nature of trust.
Chuck Missler’s observation cuts to the heart of the Christian life. God doesn’t ask us once, at conversion, “Do you trust me?” and then leave us alone. He asks again. And again. Every single day, he arranges circumstances – small and large – that surface that fundamental question.
The Question Comes in Different Forms
Sometimes the question comes in the morning, when you check the news and see fresh chaos. “Do you trust me with the state of the world?”
Sometimes it comes at the doctor’s office, waiting for test results. “Do you trust me with your body, your health, your life?”
Sometimes it comes when you open the bills and do the math. “Do you trust me to provide?”
Sometimes it comes in the silence after you’ve prayed for something desperately and heard nothing back. “Do you trust me even when I’m quiet?”
Sometimes it comes through your child’s choices, your spouse’s struggle, your friend’s betrayal. “Do you trust me with the people you love most?”
The forms vary, but the question is the same. Each challenge, each uncertainty, each moment when the future narrows to a pinpoint, and you can’t see past it, there he is, asking: “Do you trust me?”
Why Does He Keep Asking?
Not because he doubts our answer. Not because he’s insecure or needs reassurance. God asks because we need to answer.
Trust isn’t a one-time decision. It’s a muscle that atrophies without use. It’s a pathway in the brain that deepens with repetition. Each time we face the question and answer “yes” – even a trembling, uncertain yes – we’re changed. The neural pathways of faith grow stronger. The habit of trust becomes more instinctive.
God asks daily because daily trust is how we become people who truly know him. Not people who know about him, but people who know him intimately, through a thousand small acts of reliance.
The Israelites got manna daily in the wilderness. Not weekly. Not monthly. Daily. Why? “To test you and to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands” (Deuteronomy 8:2). Each morning’s provision required each morning’s trust. God was training a people to depend on him, one day at a time.
The Freedom in the Question
Here’s what I’m learning: there’s actually freedom in the daily nature of this question.
I don’t have to figure out how I’ll trust God with next year’s unknowns. I don’t have to manufacture trust for hypothetical future disasters. I only have to answer today’s question.
When Jesus said, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34), he wasn’t being glib. He was acknowledging reality—and pointing to grace. God gives us grace for today. Tomorrow’s troubles will come with tomorrow’s grace. But today? Today you have exactly what you need to answer today’s question.
How Do We Answer?
Sometimes our “yes” is confident: “Yes, Lord, I trust you. I’ve seen your faithfulness before, and I’ll see it again.”
Sometimes it’s desperate: “I want to trust you. Help my lack of trust!” (Like the father in Mark 9:24: “I believe; help my unbelief!”)
Sometimes it’s almost silent: just a decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other, to keep praying even when it feels pointless, to keep showing up even when you’re terrified.
All of these count. God isn’t grading our trust on confidence or eloquence. He’s looking at direction. Are we turning toward him or away? Are we choosing, however imperfectly, to rest our weight on him?
Today’s Question
So what is God asking you to trust him with today?
Maybe it’s something on that fear list – the corrupt official, the sick loved one, the uncertain economy. Maybe it’s smaller – an awkward conversation, a decision at work, a disappointment that stung.
Whatever it is, hear the question underneath it: “Do you trust me?”
You don’t need to have perfect faith. You don’t need to feel brave or certain. You just need to answer. Even a whispered “yes” is enough.
And tomorrow, when he asks again—and he will—you can answer again. One day at a time. One question at a time. One small act of trust at a time.
This is how trust grows. This is how “fear not” stops being a command we can’t obey and becomes a life we actually live.
Not because we’ve conquered fear once and for all, but because we’ve learned to answer, every single day: “Yes, Lord. I trust you. Help me trust you more.”
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” — Proverbs 3:5-6
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