From a Jewish perspective, how does one learn to trust G-d more?

Question

Judaism teaches that Hashem is continually creating all things and circumstances. I should have nothing to worry about. Hah! How can I increase my ability to trust Him that things will work out, especially when they are not going the way I want them to?

Answer 1

Faith
The three Jews were in serious trouble. The king considered himself a deity and expected everyone to worship him. They were from a people who believed in only one supreme G-d. When they refused the king became enraged. An ultimatum was given, either they worship the king or they would be thrown into a great furnace. Their response was a definition of faith. “We believe our G-d will save us and even if He does not save us, we will still believe.1” Their beliefs were based on what they knew with their minds to be true. It was not based on what their senses told them.

Faith is belief in things that can’t be proven, the unknown. A relationship with G-d is not based proofs.

G-d’s existence cannot be proven through physical nor logical evidence. In the end a relationship with G-d comes from choosing, with the mind, to believe. One who does not believe cannot be convinced from any evidence. One who already believes does not require evidence and is not deterred by lack of evidence.

I know a woman who was always looking for stories of G-d doing miraculous things in people’s lives. She needed this evidence so that she could believe that G-d would also do something for her. She continues to struggle with a trust in G-d. Faith based on what happened to someone yesterday does not insure trust that something will happen today. Trust does not come from seeing but from believing no matter what one sees.

Faith is like a fire and miraculous stories are like air blown on the fire to make it burn hotter. If there is no fire no amount of air will make it hotter. On the other hand if the fire is burning strongly it will draw air to it.

The fuel of the fire is knowledge of G-d. Pine is a wood that burns easy and fast. Oak does not catch fire as easily but once alight it burns hotter and longer than pine. Both woods are useful for building a fire.

In the same way faith is characterized by its source of inspiration. Some things inspire easily such as inspirational prayer melodies, community activities and tradition. They inspire quickly and easily but by themselves produce a faith that does not last. Torah study requires more work but the faith that knowledge of G-d inspires burns hotter and longer.

It starts with a decision to believe. It is inspired by and also inspires mitzvoth and prayer. It is greatly fueled by Torah study. The hotter it burns the more light it creates which illuminates the concealed presence of G-d.

1. Daniel 3: 1-33

Answer 2

Shalom. Life is hard for most people and we each share in the human condition of sin, alienation, suffering and death, irregardless of religion and culture. It is diffecult to trust HaShem and no amount of pithy answering will make this any easier for you or myself. Yet if it is any help I would suggest that trust in HaShem first depends on faith in ourselves; each person is entrusted with her or his own life, in what they chose to do in the world. We have the ability to put parts of the world to rights, even in the smallest of ways. In assisting the suffering, in feeding the hungry we enter into the divine will and naturally are moved to see ourselves in a better or more whole light, from here we can see the world, not as a bad place hoping to be righted but as an essentially good place with scattered showers. G-d is present even in our gravest doubts.
May the Master of the Universe be with you friend.

Answer 3

It depends on who you are talking to:

emesshalom says:

***Judaism is not a faith, it is a nationality. You are a Jew not because you 'believe' in Judaism, you are a Jew because your mother was a Jew. Whether you 'believe' or not does not matter as far as yoru membership is concerned. The only ones who have to 'believe' are converts.

Others say they can be Torah observant without follow what the Torah and the other scriptures say about the Temple and the need for sacrifices.

It is confusing, but the G-d of the scriptures did talk to His people so one would imagine that is still possible today. And if you are obedient and G-d is found faithful, then you could trust G-d more.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You should know as well as anyone that He has a plan for your life. You being Jewish should know we are a light to the world. How do know you have been given the right for things to go the way you want them to.
Read our history. Many who started out doing one thing only found themselves doing another and changing the world for the better.
The Tanak says,Yermi Yahu 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jewish Publication Society

Answer 6

Find out what He promised, and own it as your own.

Didn't He promise this?
24 " 'Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you. "
(Exodus 20)

He said if you do this, He will come and bless you. I believe Him, unless there is another way.

I am not trying to be funny. I am merely showing what God has said. Wasn't David your forefather? Was he not a man after God's own heart? Didn't David believe God?

Son of David, when will the descendants of David look to God's word and trust Him again? Don't they love Him anymore?

Answer 7

¶ [[Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.]] O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
¶ [[To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.]] In the LORD put I my trust:
The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.

Answer 8

this is a really good question...im quite stumpped...but what i would do is pray. to trust god more i mean...and have faith. for starters..if you were going to pray [ im catholic] you would thank god for welcoming you into his heart...dear lord that sounds cheesy..but what ever. god will most likely respect you for having the curage to talk to him, and if you were praying make in like a conversation...
hope i helped
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Answer 9

Until now (in the big picture), they've worked out pretty well- we've survived.

Answer 10

daily prayers for assistance and pour out your heart