This year challenged me on a completely different level. It challenged my faith and my trust in God.

I realized something about trust and faith in God. There are two ways we experience it. Most times, it’s easy to trust God when you already know the outcome. You may not have gotten there yet, but you know where you’re headed. You know how the end result should look. So when you pray and trust God in that situation, your faith is anchored in a known destination.

But this year placed me in a very different situation.

This year forced me to trust God without trusting the result.

When we read the Bible and pray based on scripture, we’re often praying toward something God has already said about us. We trust because He has spoken. We trust because we believe the promise will come to pass. That kind of trust is familiar.

But this year was not like that.

This year put me in a place where I had no idea where God was taking me. No clear picture. No visible end point. Just movement.

It felt like being in the ocean, with waves coming from different directions, the wind blowing, the water rising and falling, and then getting to that moment where you stop struggling and just lie still… allowing the current to take you wherever it wants to take you.

That was the kind of faith this year demanded from me.

I went through challenges where I didn’t even understand the beginning of the issue, talk less of how it would end. And at some point, I stopped trying to figure it out. I just said, “Baba God, I don’t care where You’re taking me to. I believe You.”

Not because I knew the outcome.

Not because I heard a specific word.

Not because I could see the destination.

But because of who He is.

This year stretched my faith to a level where I had to trust God, not for what He said about me, but for who He is. And those are two very different things. It’s easier to trust the promise. It’s deeper to trust the Person.

To trust Him knowing that He will never leave me nor forsake me.

And honestly, the benefits of that trust are already showing up in my life. Little by little, I’m seeing the fruit. It was a challenging year, no doubt. But God saw me through. And in the process, He unlocked a deeper level of faith in me.

For that, Baba God… ride on.

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