How to Trust God’s Timing

I often wonder how to trust God’s timing when life is hard. During my quiet time today, I realized that I had taken on too many of life’s burdens. In other words, I had grown consumed with worry. If I told you what I was struggling with behind these words, your jaw would drop. Yeah, if I shared what struggles I am dealing with and how I try to worship and smile in spite of them, I think you’d likely be amazed. Or, maybe you wouldn’t. *sigh* Life is just hard sometimes. I learn how to trust God’s timing in these times. That is necessary for my peace, I think.

But, during my quiet time, the Holy Spirit showed me that I had taken on so many burdens that I was never designed to carry myself.

That is why I forgot how to cast my cares on the Lord. Likely, also why I forgot how to trust God’s timing.

Can you relate to any of these struggles, or is it just me?

Get outta here, it’s not just me!

Everyone Struggles with How to Trust God’s Timing

We like to know what’s going on, don’t we?

We like to know what is ahead.

That’s why I think it can be so difficult to trust God’s timing even when we know we should.

Let me share a bit of my story in the most personal way I ever have on my Christian Lifestyle Blog.

When Did It All Change?

Not long ago, I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, brushing through strands of silver that had once been jet black. The house was super quiet—too quiet.

Not just Saturday-morning quiet, but life-has-shifted quiet. My oldest kid was married, and my youngest is now legally an adult. My husband is at church working.

The house is quiet.

The kind of silence that settles in after your last child grows up, and all that’s left are echoes and photos lining the hallway.

I stared at those pictures—birthday parties, Easter mornings, school plays.

It felt like just yesterday we were rushing to get out the door for Sunday school or arguing over who got the front seat. I used to complain about the noise. Now I’d give anything to hear it again.

Everyone tells you the days are long but the years are short.

I didn’t know how short. Life moved too fast for me to catch up.

One day, I was tying shoes and packing lunches.

The next, I was scrolling social media, watching everyone else celebrate new babies, new homes, new beginnings—while I sat in a quiet house trying to remember who I was without them.

Grief has visited me more than I ever imagined.

I’ve lost people who made my world feel whole—my mom, my brother.

With each loss, it felt like life was peeling back a layer of me, and I wasn’t sure who was left underneath.

One day I sat on the porch with my Bible open and whispered, “Lord, I don’t know where I fit anymore.”

I flipped to Ecclesiastes, a book I hadn’t touched in years, and there it was staring back at me:

“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

I had read that scripture a hundred times. But this time, it didn’t feel poetic. It felt personal.

This is how to trust God’s timing.

I realized I wasn’t angry at God’s plan—I just didn’t know how to trust His timing when it didn’t feel good. I thought I’d be stronger, less shaken. But I was grieving not just people—I was grieving roles, purpose, identity.

But slowly, gently, the Lord is teaching me that just because life is changing doesn’t mean He is gone.

He had carried me through childbirth, career shifts, heartbreak, and joy.

He had never once abandoned me.

I started journaling—just one sentence a day—about what I still had: quiet mornings, deeper prayers, the ability to encourage others.

That’s really what inspired my book and all the talking about journaling I do.

Dang! That was said. Let me switch gears here.

My faith got wimpy.

Not only that, the whole live season change was occurring.

That was plenty in itself, but I had also assumed a weak – almost pitiful – Christian posture.

The reason might sound familiar to you – if you have my personality type.

It seems I traded a faith-inspired (believing God no matter what) kind of disposition for a more intellectual experience with God.

I wanted to understand things. More and more I wanted to know why.

Why did the last two members of my immediate family have to die within a 2-year span?

Why did my son have to move away?

Why did my job eliminate positions?

Why. Why. Why.

So many times, we Christians try to reason, understand, and figure out God and how He moves rather than just trusting Him to fix the issue and guide us through it all.

Again, do you want to know how to trust God’s timing?

You just do it.

Stop all the foolish logical attempts to comprehend a massive, eternal, infinately wise God.

And you just trust His seasons – just like the scripture I read that day on my deck.

You see, in our attempts to figure God out, we become immensely confused and drawn away from the fiery, real-time power of the Holy Spirit.

You can’t walk in earthly intellect and faith at the same time – the two just don’t go together. You have to choose one.

There is no point in trying to figure out how to trust God’s timing when we want to try to be God in our own right.

Stop whining, Christian woman, figure out how to trust in God.

We can stand on God’s word and assert an authority (given by Jesus) that will make the Kingdom of Hell shudder and bring about change.

That is what we should do.

Stop thinking so much, Christian woman.

That sounds weird.

But, for those who are stuck in the quagmire of “intellectual” faith and think that is where you should be, you keep that for yourself.

His ways are far above ours; why try to comprehend them?

Instead of attempting to figure out the “why”, just trust Him and do whatever the Holy Spirit tells you to do. That’s what I’m doing to get through my hard time. That’s what I hope I always do. That is how to trust in God.

If you like bumping your head against a brick wall, go ahead and try to “figure out” what God is “up to” in your life.

Let it go. Trust Him.

For then, and only then, I can be a true blessing to the Body of Christ and speak a powerful word to encourage myself and others in times of pain and trouble.

Now, let me be clear.

I don’t think walking in faith is about being a brainless nutcase. I just don’t think we should ever let our finite knowledge trump the infinite knowledge of God. We don’t understand God and shouldn’t act as though we do.

Especially when we are encouraging someone going through a hard time. We don’t know “why” and we shouldn’t say we do or offer “ideas” about why God is doing or allowing something.

Which will it be, Christian Girl? Victory or logic?

You receive only what you have faith for, so you choose – Victory or Logic.

Sometimes, it really is as simple as that choice.

For instance, Jesus spitting in a bunch of dirt and rubbing it on people was not logical, but it was victorious for the blind man who received sight.

Choose today and learn how to trust God’s timing. That’s what I am doing.

Will you live by faith or by what makes sense to you?

Will you take Him at His word or try to figure Him out intellectually with man-made tools?  I think you know what I choose – BLIND FAITH, BABY!

Check out my other post on the subject of God’s timing and seasons here.

Love ya!