We celebrated Scott’s 11th birthday last week with a few of his friends from school. The kids all dressed in their pajamas and went bowling. Isn’t it great to be a kid and wear your pajamas out and have a party!

What struck me was one boy was very reluctant to wear his pajamas. Not because he would be embarrassed to wear them to the bowling alley, but he was afraid we were playing a trick on him and that he would be the only one wearing pajamas. How sad that was to me that he didn’t have faith in his friends. They have never played a trick on him or knowingly embarrassed him before.

I began to ask, “what makes our children not trust”? Then it came to me, it is us. They see many of the adults around them being untrusting. We have conversations in front of our children about us not trusting the government, schools, elected officials, church, friends, family and maybe even our spouses. Do they even get a chance to see us in complete trust of our Heavenly Father? Do they get to see us submit in total obedience without holding on to some control of the situation?

Are we living our life trusting in God? Do we live a life trustworthy?

God has never embarrassed or disappointed us. He has never been unfaithful. What he says He does. So, why are we still untrusting?