TRUST LIKE A CHILD

Trust isn’t passive. It takes obedience, surrender, and real confidence in the one you’re trusting. At its core, trust is giving yourself over completely.

Have you ever fully trusted someone like that? Or seen it in someone else?

For me, I think of my daughter, Dove. She’s almost 2 years old and completely dependent on her mom and me. She doesn’t always listen when we tell her “no,” but when she’s scared or needs something, she runs straight to us. We are her safe place.

If she had to depend on her own abilities, she wouldn’t make it that far at this stage. When she’s hungry, she cries. When she’s tired, she cries. When she doesn’t get her way, guess what…she cries. That’s because she’s a toddler and has yet to learn how to communicate her needs alongside handling big emotions. 

Her trust is simple and total. She doesn’t sit there wondering if we’ll come through for her; she just depends.

Genesis 22 gives us a picture of that kind of trust in the story of Abraham and Isaac. God tells Abraham to take his son, the very one He promised, and offer him as a sacrifice. It’s hard to even process how heavy that moment must have been. But Abraham obeys. He gets up early, gathers everything, and starts the journey.

Then Isaac asks the question: “Where is the lamb?” 

Abraham responds, “God Himself will provide the lamb” (Gen. 22:8). And He does. Right at the moment it matters most, God provides a ram in Isaac’s place.

We usually focus on Abraham here, and rightly so, but don’t miss Isaac. From what we can see, Isaac trusted his father, even when none of this made sense. That kind of trust is what Jesus points to when He says we need faith like a child (Matt. 18:3–4).

It’s not having all the answers. It’s knowing who you’re trusting.

And this story doesn’t just stop in Genesis. It points forward.

When John the Baptist says, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29), he’s showing us the fulfillment. God didn’t just provide a lamb for Abraham; He provided the Lamb for us.

Jesus is that provision.

So here’s the question: what are you really trusting in?

Because Jesus is calling us to that same kind of trust. Not complicated. Not calculated. Just real, childlike dependence, believing He is enough and that God will provide.