"Quiet Trust vs. Timidity: How to Walk in Faith Without Fear Running the Show"

Let’s talk about what it looks like to trust God through fear. I am pretty sure that I am not alone in this and I’m done with letting fear run the show.

When Quiet Trust Becomes Timidity

“Timidity is not the same as quiet trust.”

I wrote that in my journal the other morning and the truth of what God spoke to me hit hard.

As God has been bringing clarity to me and revealing things to me, I have over corrected in some areas and am now trying to find the balance - the rhythm - of walking in my healing with grace and peace without fear and frustration leading the way.

My desire is to live my life with a calm, resilience which leads me to the sturdy, quiet choice of building my life on God’s faithfulness rather than my fear.‍ ‍

I have realized that I lost some of my hope, the trust that stands strong against the storms.
Quiet trust is not a timid trust. It may not shout and draw attention to itself, but it doesn’t back away from a fight either.

Relearning how to quietly trust the God that calmed the seas, split the ocean, provided the ram and loved me so fiercely has challenged me to reframe the word quiet.

The tendency we have when we get clarity, healing or a revelation about something is too swing too hard in the other direction and overdo our course correction.

For me, the pendulum swing was going from quiet trust to timidity.
I started to think and act timid, thinking I was walking with God with quiet trust.
Fear has always been one of my biggest adversaries. Insecurity can make me prickly with self-protection. So I find myself, once again, dealing with fear. Will this bring judgement? Will I be accepted? Who do you think you are?

What God Actually Says About Fear

“My healing will mean letting go of old identities that while unbecoming,
were identities I wore long enough to grow comfortable.”
“After Amen” by Tyler Staton

No matter how comfortable and familiar we feel with that identity, we need to become uncomfortable by agreeing with what God says. Growth comes from challenge and challenge is uncomfortable.

I do not serve my God well when I make myself small. I take His grace, freedom and love and throw it back in His face when I choose to not trust HIm to be with me as I walk out my life and faith as authentically as I can.

And you do too.

Whatever your healing is from, whatever trauma or stress you are finding freedom in, being timid about who you are in God now is fear wrapped in an innocuous word. Timid can sound gentle, non-threatening, even shy. God is not shy about His love and His plans can definitely threaten people.

Our being timid may make others feel better about themselves and less threatened, but it doesn’t show the greatness of God’s sacrifical love for us to be healed, whole and redefined into His Image.

I cannot confuse living a quiet, calm peaceful life trusting God with allowing fear to stop me from stepping out into all God has for me. Neither can you.
We cannot grow unless we are challenged. Being uncomfortable is not the same as allowing fear to stop us.
We need to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. God will push us to be more like Him, to love like Him, to serve others like Him, to step out into dreams and face opposition with Him by our side.

How to walk In Faith One Day At A Time

That takes trust. That takes knowing God and who we are in Him. That take rising up in faith. That takes walking with Him.

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
Galatians 5:25

On my bathroom mirror is a post-it note with this verse along with two questions: “What do You want me to know?” “What do You want me to do?”

I can’t say that I am living by the Spirit, if I do not ask Him how to walk with Him for that day. Those days when I take a few minutes for this conversation, I have confidence and peace. What if that is the answer for fear or the dreaded imposter syndrome? The knowing we are living in and walking with the Spirit.

Listening to what God is saying for that day can be freeing from the pressure that I need to deal with every flaw in every area, while being the best version of myself and loving fully and… and…

God knows we will not be perfect, we can let ourselves off the hook for that one.
God fully expects us to be obedient, like it’s our job - because it is.

I don’t know what it means for you to have trust, quiet or otherwise, in God.
I don’t know what areas God is challenging you in today.
I do know that God will always be there.
I do know that He will continue to push and challenge us.
I do know that we are loved and chosen! So, with that in mind, go be amazing today!
XO ~ Jodi

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