Why Trusting God Is Hard (And What Actually Changes That)
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Darin Starks
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Why does trusting God feel so difficult even when we believe He is faithful?
In this episode I look at Exodus 34:6 where God describes Himself as abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. We explore what that means in the original Hebrew and why understanding God’s character not our performance is what actually builds trust.
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| 0:28.6 | previews from December 22. So if God is faithful, why is trusting him still so hard? Most of us don't |
| 0:35.0 | struggle with believing in God as much as we struggle with actually trusting |
| 0:38.4 | him. And the reason might not be because it's necessarily spiritual failure at all. We've been |
| 0:44.2 | shaped by broken promises, people who said that they show up and didn't, commitments that fell through |
| 0:50.0 | without realizing it, we projected all those experiences on to God. |
| 0:58.9 | But in Exodus 34, God does something remarkable for the first time in Scripture. |
| 1:00.0 | He describes himself. |
| 1:02.4 | And at the center of that description is this truth. |
| 1:05.6 | He's abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness. |
| 1:10.0 | So today we're going to really walk through and talk about why trusting God is so hard and the one thing |
| 1:11.3 | that actually changes it when you understand who God really is. |
| 1:16.3 | And so today, we're going to be really looking into what stepfast love means in the original Hebrew language for it to really come alive to us and how we should be seeing God. |
| 1:29.7 | And we far really get into that, what I think about steadfast love and faithfulness, I really want to set this up |
| 1:38.2 | in realizing that God is a man of His word. And I think that we all live with different experiences of |
| 1:48.4 | disappointment of people speaking something that they're, or saying something that they're going |
| 1:55.2 | to do for us or with us by us that doesn't necessarily come into fruition, right? I think we've all had |
| 2:04.1 | those moments, whether we want to admit it or not, where we're making plans with someone, |
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