Living Like God Can Be Trusted

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” — Isaiah 26:3

You never really find out what you're trusting until the things you depend on begin to shake.

I used to think faith was something you discovered in the middle of a crisis.

Now I think a crisis simply reveals where your trust has been all along.

As I’ve been studying Isaiah, one theme keeps showing up. God’s people didn’t stop believing in Him. 

They just slowly started trusting something else.

Strong cities.

Walls.

Wealth.

Military alliances.

None of those things were sinful by themselves. In fact, many of them seemed wise and responsible. 

The problem wasn’t what they had. 

The problem was where they found their peace.

What am I trusting that I’ve slowly started depending on more than God?

If I'm honest, there have been seasons when I've found myself longing for the kind of security everyone else seems to be chasing. 

• A predictable life. 
• A comfortable routine. 
• More certainty about what’s next.

Those aren’t bad desires. For many people, that’s exactly where God has called them in order to best serve their community.

But I’ve learned something about my own heart.

When I begin looking to those things for peace, I also begin losing my willingness to live differently.

I become more focused on protecting my comfort than following wherever God leads.

Broken

Then something happened that changed the way I understand Isaiah 26 forever.

The one thing in my life that I thought would completely break me finally came to light.

I honestly expected my world to fall apart.

Instead, something unexpected happened.

I had peace.

I had peace because, looking back, I realized God had been preparing my heart for years. 

Every season where He asked me to trust Him when life didn’t make sense wasn’t random. He was building something in me long before I knew I would need it.

The storm didn’t create my faith. It revealed it.

God had been faithfully shaping my trust long before I realized He was preparing me for that moment.

Our New Journey

Tomorrow our family starts another journey as we hit the road again. 

People often ask how we can live this way, and the honest answer is that this lifestyle isn’t the point. 

God hasn’t called everyone to travel, live in an RV, or leave what’s familiar.

But I do believe He calls all of us to ask the same question:

Where does my peace come from?

Because eventually, every one of us will face a moment that tests what we’ve been leaning on.

Maybe for you it’s a diagnosis.

A broken relationship.

The loss of a job.

A financial setback.

A child making choices you never imagined.

Or simply the uncertainty of not knowing what’s next.

When that day comes, the question won’t be whether your life was carefully planned.

The question will be whether your trust was rooted in something that couldn’t be shaken.

Isaiah says,

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.” (Isaiah 26:3–4)

Notice what Isaiah doesn’t say.

• He doesn’t promise a life without uncertainty.

• He doesn’t promise that everything will work out the way we hoped.

• He points us to the only foundation that remains when everything else shakes. 

As believers, we know that foundation is ultimately found in Christ, who secured an eternal hope that no circumstance can take away.

I’ve realized that peace isn’t the absence of chaos.

Peace is the presence of God in the middle of it.

And maybe that’s why God sometimes allows us to walk through seasons where our usual sources of security don’t hold up anymore...

not to punish us, but to remind us that our deepest security was never meant to rest in them.

If my peace disappears every time my circumstances change, then maybe my peace was never really in God.

But if my peace remains when life is shaken, then I’ve discovered something the world can never offer and can never take away.

As we pull out tomorrow and begin another chapter, I’m grateful that the greatest lesson God has taught me wasn’t how to live on the road.

It was how to trust Him wherever the road leads. 

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A Question to Reflect On

If the thing that makes you feel most secure disappeared tomorrow, would your peace disappear with it?

Take a few minutes with me this week to honestly ask God where your trust has been resting.

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This Week’s Challenge

Read Isaiah 26:1–10 slowly.

As you read, ask yourself:

What have I been looking to for peace that only God can truly provide?

Write down one area where God may be inviting you to trust Him more deeply, and take one small step of obedience this week.

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 Prayer

Heavenly Father, 

Thank You for being my unshakable foundation. Forgive me for the times I’ve looked to things that cannot ultimately hold me up. Teach me to trust You more than my plans, my comfort, or my circumstances. Build a faith that remains steady when life is uncertain, and let my peace be found in You alone. I

n Jesus name, Amen.

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