Yesterday – Initial Trust
There is another type of trust that is often neglected – ongoing trust. This is the trust that must be exercised by everyone who has placed their faith and trust in God initially. 
This is the trust that we must recommit ourselves to daily as believers in God and followers of Jesus Christ.
Revival Meetings
Allow me to digress for a moment and say that periodically I hear of a desire for what we used to call “revival meetings”. Now I’m not opposed to those meetings; I think they can be useful, but I think what we miss when we see that as the solution to perceive spiritual deadness is that revival and recommitment are supposed to happen every day.
Every morning should start for each of us with the acknowledgment that without Christ we are spiritually dead and that if we are to live, on this day, we will require the assistance of the Spirit of God. So what is needed is not a periodic explosion of mass recommitment, but a daily taking up of one’s cross to follow Christ.
This, I would argue, will yield more committed followers of Christ.
All You Need Is… Trust
Many of us, myself included, often live as though that initial trust is all that’s needed, that this one-time commitment is the pinnacle of our spiritual lives. And it is VERY important of course, but ongoing trust is required and acts as proof that our initial trust was sincere. Because if we claim that we trust him but we haven’t done so since that once time long ago, then do we really trust him?
So this might be the time when you place your trust in God for the first time – and I will rejoice with you if that is the case. And I will be equally happy if those of you who long ago placed your initial trust in God would today confess that there are many examples in your life that betray the fact that you don’t trust him every day. I know there are in mine. 
There are days, sometimes weeks, when the eyes of my heart seem to think that something other than Christ is my savior.
Initial trust and ongoing trust – these are both acts of extreme humility because trusting God means admitting that there are things we don’t know, and I for one am pretty bad at that. I plan and scheme and execute and follow-up and analyze, all in an effort to tame the unpredictable, to reduce the possibility of surprise happenings.
And all of my humility is required for me to come before God and say “God, I may know something about what’s happening in my tiny corner of the universe, but I have no clue, nor the ability to discern or to tame or to process or to analyze the immensity of your providence and your sovereignty. Help me. I want to trust you.”
