WHAT IS "TRUST?"

What is "Trust?"

Proverbs 3:5 tells us to " Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." To understand this verse, we must understand the fundamental difference between "believe" and "trust."

Have you ever have heard of Jean-Francois Gravelet? Better known as Charles Blondin, he was born in France on February 28, 1824 and died in London on February 22, 1897.

Blondin was a funambulist. What's a funambulist? Funambulist means tightrope walker. Charles Blondin was the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope, a 3" hemp rope, 1,100 feet long. In 1859 and 1860 he walked across it, 160 feet above the Niagara River, just below the falls, several times, each time with a different, daring feat: dressed in a sack, walking on stilts, pushing a wheelbarrow full of potatoes, riding a bicycle. One time he stopped in mid-section and cooked an omelet on a small portable stove.

If you stood in the crowd and he came up to you with his wheelbarrow and asked, "Do you believe that I can push you across in this?" undoubtedly you would say, "Yes."

But, what would your answer be if he then said, "Get in?" That's a different story!

Many, many people believe in the Lord Jesus. But far fewer people trust the Lord, and are willing to "get in the wheelbarrow."

"Trust in the Lord" means to be fully confident or sure; to be bold in action. "With all your heart" means with the center of your being, at the deepest level, fully and completely.