By Michelle Kidner

An infant automatically trusts his or her Mother, and will soon to grow to trust others, but as a child grows older trust does not come as easy.That is why it is so easy to understand, the Bible says to train up a child in the way you want it to go, and the child will not stray.

It is not always the case though, sometimes a child will leave the faith they grew up with, and we do not understand why, but a lot of it may have to do with the fact that they lose trust. Perhaps a church group hurt them in someway, or maybe a pastor said something to us.

As we grow older, we learn to be less trusting, and often that leads to a falling away.

Learning to trust and obey also involves learning to let go, and I have had to let go many times in my life. I’ve had to say goodbye to many people in my life, some people I would see again, but others I lost to death.

Believe me, learning to let go and not stay angry at the world, and at the good Lord is a lesson in trusting and obeying His will; that is not to say we can never ask, because I believe the Lord expects that of us.

In Ecclesiastes it says there is a time for everything, a time to laugh a time to cry, a time to build up a time to tare down. That does not mean we take that as meaning the end of our lives, the end of our faith.

When Nonna died about three and a half years ago, we realized that we would have to let go. She was eighty nine and a half, and the last few months of her life had been difficult. It was not easy letting go, but I knew Nonna was going to be with the Lord; I had no doubt of that in my mind.

She and I talked about faith, and from a young age she encouraged me to memorize Bible Verses. During the last moments of her life, I found myself sitting beside her bed, with our family around her, as I read from the twenty third psalm.

As she slipped away I felt a peace about letting her go, because the Lord had given me the assurance in my heart that she was no longer in pain, and that letting go was the right thing to do.

Letting go happened again unexpectedly just a few months ago, I had called my friend Melissa as I often did, only to hear her husband’s voice on the other end. My best friend, my sister at heart, went home to be with the Lord, she was only thirty six.

Letting go was not as easy then, she had not lived the long life Nonna had, her son was not yet grown, and I never really had the chance to say goodbye. I found out that she died two weeks before I called. It all seemed so unreal, but even then I had to let my trust in the Lord.

I had to give him my pain, my tears, and believe she was in a better place. Truthfully, I knew she was in a better place, her amputated limbs made whole, her failing organs, functioning again, she now has a new body in Heaven.

Trust is often something broken by people, but when we place our trust in the Lord, it will not be broken, that is not to say that we will never have troubles again, but when we face troubles, we can give those troubles to the Lord.

Placing trust in the Lord must be something we do everyday, because without placing our trust in him nothing goes right. We need to lean on the blood stained hands who sacrificed His life for us. We need to trust our Lord and Savior the way an infant trusts the Mothers whose breast he or she nurse at.

For some, trust is not as easy, for some, trust is hard, because they have strongholds that are getting in their way, strongholds are a part of life, but we have to give them also to the Lord.

Letting go is a part of trust. In order to trust we must let go of those burdens we are carrying; burdens that may seem impossible to let go, but just laying them at the cross is enough.

This is where Jesus wants us to lay our burdens so that we can learn to trust Him, and in trusting Him we are obeying the commandments of the Lord. When we hold on to a stronghold we are not really honoring God.

When we place our trust in the Lord, and obey his laws, it is then and only then we will find fulfillment, and what it truly means to be free of the "worldly ways." Only then can we be free to live Godly lives; this is true freedom. We also have a reward if we do follow His commands.