Sometimes my husband Barry struggles when it comes to making a big purchase. When choosing a new phone, for instance, he can easily spend hours in a store looking at all the latest gadgets. I’m not like that. I decide what I want, then I go out, and I buy it. Done! Barry is more . . . thoughtful.
“I like the size of the screen on this one,” he’ll say.
I merely nod, because I know he’s about to like the battery life on another. I simply walk along beside him like a nodding dog on a long, long walk.
“This one got great reviews,” Barry mentions, “in addition to a couple really bad reviews.
“I wonder if this model comes in black.
“What kind of photos do you think I’d get on this one?
“Is this too big for my pocket?”
Finally, after I have sung through the entire score of Handel’s Messiah in my head, I’ll inevitably say, “Will you just choose one?”
And Barry’s response will be “But all the facts aren’t in yet!”
I think we can be a bit like that in our relationship with God. We want to trust Him with everything, but we don’t know what that might mean. We want to rest in God’s peace, but we see so much trouble everywhere around us, both near and far. We want to forgive that woman in our small group who wounded or offended us and isn’t the least bit sorry, but we’re not sure we can really let it go.
If the jury were still out on the goodness, mercy, and grace of God, maybe you and I could be excused for not trusting God, resting in His peace, forgiving people, or doing any of the things He calls us to do. But all the facts we need to know about God are in:
God is sovereign.
God is love.
God is truth.
God is wisdom.
God is mercy.
God is for us.
God knows everything.
God is always with us.
With those facts in place, we have no reason not to act. We have no reason not to obey all that God commands. After all, those commands are for our good.
The facts are in: we have no excuse not to trust our God!
Five Minutes in the Word 
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 37:5 ESV
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God. Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything.
1 John 3:18–20
Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world.
Philippians 2:14–15 NASB
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:1–2 ESV
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV