Have you ever felt like your trust in the Lord is growing old, like bread left out on the counter for a few days? Getting hard, stale, and a bit crusty, with only fond memories of when it was fresh?

For any of us who’ve trusted Jesus enough to give our lives to Him, we have at least one good testimony of His trustworthiness and acting on our behalf. And when we give our “testimony”, we automatically think of when we received salvation by believing in Him and recognizing His Lordship over the universe, including us.

What about after that? Have we seen the Lord act since then? Have we recognized it when He has? Have we given Him an opportunity to give our trust a “tune-up” by asking Him for help and expectantly waiting for Him to intervene? Have we “hit refresh” on it and watched in delight as He updated it?

Or, worse yet, what if our “trust” is only second-hand—as in, “My grandfather put His trust in the Lord when my grandmother got healed 50 years ago”? These kinds of testimonies are great reminders of His powerful and benevolent intervention in people’s lives, and they always encourage us who hear and read them. They make solid bridges for us to trust Him for ourselves, based on past evidence of trustworthiness.

Now it’s up to us to cross that bridge and make that experience of trust our own. This begins with “saving trust”—the giving our lives to Him mentioned above. But it doesn’t end there.

He continues to intervene on our behalf! When we ask for it, see it, and acknowledge His divine intervention, we essentially “tune up” our trust, making it “hum” again like a new engine. Or, like taking that hard, stale, bread and refreshing it by putting it in the “microwave” of expecting, watching, and celebrating His loving and powerful deeds. (Where this analogy breaks down is if we leave bread in the microwave too long, whereas we can never leave our trust in the Lord too long!).

Thankfully, we have this promise to count on:

““However, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’  but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.” Jer. 16:14-15

Here the Lord promises to keep giving us reasons, updated and current, to trust Him, remember His intervention, and build our faith and relationship with Him. Not just what He did hundreds of years ago for others, or even many years ago for us, but now and continuing. He is “the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8).

For example:

Many years ago, early in our marriage, my husband lost his wedding ring in the yard of a house he was painting (that’s how we supported our ministry). He remembered having it on when he went to work, and only noticed it missing when he arrived home and it was already dark. We prayed to find it. That night as he was going to sleep, he found it under his pillow!

Fast forward to our 40th-anniversary dream-of-a-lifetime trip three weeks ago. We’re sitting on an airplane, ready for take-off, on our way home. Suddenly I realized I didn’t have my phone. First thing—ask the person who’d switched seats with me because she wanted the window, and I was glad to have the aisle. Not there. Second, check my backpack thoroughly. Twice. And have my husband check it thoroughly, twice. Not there. Not in anyone’s pocket or seat, nor the holder in front. Third, start to get anxious (being real here). Fourth, remember to pray. Fifth, remember the angelic delivery service of my husband’s wedding ring, to add peace and trust to my prayers. Sixth, ask the nearest attendant for help (it’s ok to ask people’s help too, since the Lord uses them too).

After we took off, the attendant asked me to check again before checking the rest of the plane. I did. There was my phone—visible and easy to find, in the pouch of my backpack, where it would normally be.

Angels don’t grow older. The Lord doesn’t change. My testimony of His faithfulness and caring about every aspect of our lives and what matters to us is updated and current. So is my trust!

Jer. 16:14-15 is still good for today…. and tomorrow… and eternity. Your testimonies confirming that may or may not be similar to mine. He demonstrates His consistent and continuing intervention and trustworthiness in all kinds of ways—such as:

  • Preventing accidents on the road—those times we thought for sure “that crazy driver” was going to hit us, but they didn’t (picture a strong angel getting between two vehicles and keeping them apart).
  • Suddenly remembering something we have to do, right away, that if we’d forgotten would’ve caused major trouble for us and/or others (Holy Spirit reminding us, so our mind tells us, “Oh yeah, the…!”
  • Giving us strength we don’t naturally have, physically to do something that desperately needs to be accomplished, and lives may depend on (carry a person, move a heavy object, etc.)
  • Giving us the courage, wisdom, and mental ability to take care of something we couldn’t or wouldn’t do otherwise—(challenging the wrongdoing of our boss/leader, public speaking, fixing a computer problem, etc.)
  • Other evidence of divine assistance and supernatural enabling

Where are you seeing the Lord update your trust in Him and make it current? Where are you watching for and expecting it? In computer language, we need to keep installing (automatically or manually) those updates—with the Lord, there’s never a glitch or a bug. Let’s keep our trust up to date, fresh, and humming along!