Oh, and the real question I wanted to ask is: What is your method in trusting God?
You're asking what method one uses to trust?
I am going to assume that when you were a child growing up, you had at least one parent, hopefully two, who raised you and took care of you. If not a parent, an adult surrogate parent, say an aunt or a grandparent, or maybe a significantly older sibling. I am speaking of the person(s) who sheltered, fed, and clothed you.
When you were a child, you trusted that when you woke up in the morning, this parent (or parental figure) would feed you. You didn't really question it, right? You may have questioned, "what are we having for breakfast?" but likely, hopefully you never had to ask, "ARE we having breakfast? Is there food for us to eat?" You trusted in that parent to have already provided the answer to THAT question; your parent provided for your NEED.
What was the method you used to do that? Explain the methodology there.
See, that's the trick, huh? There is no explicit method. Trust is IMPLICIT. It is nothing more than believing wholeheartedly in the actions and intentions of the other party. Whether you're trusting that your partner in the silly trust-exercise is going to catch you when you fall back, whether you're trusting that your parent will keep you clothed/sheltered/fed when you are too young to fend for yourself, or whether you are trusting in the Lord's plans for your future: it's not a specific method to follow, it's simply what you do.
The active component of trust is revealed in your actions: if you do not trust that your parents are going to feed you, then you are going to borrow some money from a friend, or maybe use your ten-year-old cuteness to get someone to buy you a sandwich, which you eat, because you don't trust your parents to feed you. Then when your parent shows up to school with a Happy Meal and couple of cookies, a couple of minutes after you scammed a lunch out of your cafeteria lady, what are you left to say? Do you look your parent in the eye and say, "Well, you didn't pack a lunch for me this morning, so I had to take care of it myself. And now I'm already full."
Mom says, "I wanted to surprise you. Why didn't you trust me?"
Our Father knows our need, and He knows it in a deeper, more truthful way that we can't even comprehend. Just as when we are ten, and our earthly parents understand our need better than we do. You can stand in the aisle of that supermarket checkout, and scream and whine and throw a tantrum about HOW YOU NEED THAT CANDY BAR, and a good parent knows so much better than you that you do not NEED that candy bar...you WANT that candy bar, but you do not need it. And as a parent, they are going to make sure your NEEDS are met, and not your wants. And like children, we can throw our tantrums and whine and cry, and our Father, ever eternal and ever patient, simply rests on the handle of the shopping cart, thumbing through the latest issue of US! Weekly, and quietly murmurs, "No. You don't need it right now. But when you do really, truly need it, then I will provide it."
As we become adults, we tend to think we are the masters of our own destinies, and we get frustrated with God when we don't get what we want, when we want it or expect it. In the end, we are STILL children. We are the eternal toddler, with no real ability to distinguish between our needs and our wants, and He is the Eternal Provider, who will never ever forsake our needs, but is also never under any obligation to provide for our wants. Trusting in the Lord is simply KNOWING that He is Lord, and that He knows our need far better than we could ever imagine, and knowing that He will provide for our need, while often, like a good parent, saying no to our many earthly desires.
(see the "Demands" thread for some further humour on mate preferences)
