"Still another pitfall to trusting God, which we are prone to fall into is to turn to God in trusting in the greater crisis experiences of life while seeking to work through the minor difficulties ourselves. A disposition to trust in ourselves is part of our sin nature. It sometimes take a major crisis, or at least a moderate one, to turn us towards the Lord. A mark of Christian maturity is to continually trust the Lord in the minutuae of daily life. If we learn to trust God in the minor adversities, we will be better prepared to trust Him in the major ones.
Quoting from Philip Bennett Power:
The daily circumstances of life will afford us opportunities enough of glorifying God in Trust, without our waiting for any extraordinary calls upon our faith. Let us remember that the extraordinary circumstances of life are but few; that much of life may slip past without their occurrence; and that if we be not faithful and trusting in that which is little, we are not likely to be so in that which is great... Let our trust be reared in the humble nursery of our own daily experience, with its ever recurring little wants, and trials, and sorrows; and then, when need be, it will come forth, to do such great things as are required of it."
- Jerry Bridges Trusting God
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