This Week: August 16th, 2026

"Because I said so."

At some point, your parent, or perhaps you yourself as a parent, has uttered this phrase to a child. Maybe there was no time to explain why you were asking them to do something, or maybe you simply did not have the energy. You just wanted them to trust you, confident that their obedience would lead to a better outcome than whatever they might have chosen on their own.

Sometimes our relationship with God is like that.

Scripture tells us that faith is not simply wishing that something will happen. It is having confidence that if God says it will, then it will. Often we are faced with a decision and God lays it upon our hearts to act in a way that runs contrary to our natural response. Sometimes the action He asks of us is no action at all.

Yet we want to insert ourselves into God’s plan with a plan of our own. When we do, the outcome is often far different from what it might have been had we simply trusted Him. We find ourselves fighting against waves of rejection, defeat, and consequences far removed from what we envisioned.

But when we let God take control of our lives and trust in Him, we demonstrate more than obedience. We demonstrate surrender. We are saying that His plan matters more than our own, even when we cannot see where it leads.

And with that surrender comes peace. The outcome no longer rests entirely upon our shoulders. We can trust that whatever comes, we have placed ourselves in His hands and followed where He led. We may not understand the reason in the moment. We may not see what He sees.

Sometimes we simply have to trust Him because He said so.