To REALLY trust in the Lord

I've been thinking (and learning) a lot about trusting in the Lord lately.    I think I have greatly underestimated it.  We talk about "trusting in the Lord" all the time.  It is easy to say or consider when things are going good.  Sometimes I think we believe that if we do trust in the Lord that things are going to get better soon.  When they don't, then we start doubting.   But, there are some Great Scriptures about trusting.  Here are some I've seen lately that I really like.

Read this one from Isaiah slowly and picture it in your mind:  

Hearken unto me, which are borne by me from the belly and are carried from the womb...I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry and will deliver you.

Even when things are bad,  He is still carrying you!  The next one I put my name in--ignore that part and use your own name.  It makes it cooler.

Yet now hear, O Beth, my servant; whom I have chosen:  Thus saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee: 

Fear not, Beth...for I will pour water upon her that is thristy, and floods upon the dry ground:  I will pour my spirit upon they seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:  And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water.  

I don't know when I read this first, but I came across it again tonight.  In the margin I have written "He will pour out His Spirit on our family like water on dry ground."  Think of the visual-----imagine His spirit pouring down on Shelbie and your family.  As you said once---you see it happening in other families and wonder why can't it be your family?  Why can't it?  It can be.  Trust in the Lord! 

At church yesterday, our Bishop said that if we are doing what is right and still aren't feeling "the power" then we just need to rely on Heavenly Father and trust in Him to send the power. Be still and wait on the Lord.    He quoted how Alma and his people had their burdens made light.    So I looked it up---

And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea the Lord did strengthen them that could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.    And it came to pass that so GREAT WAS THEIR FAITH and their PATIENCE that the voice of the Lord came unto them again, saying:  Be of good comfort, for on the morrow I will deliver you out of bondage.

So, while I was looking for this scripture that my Bishop had mentioned, I accidentally found this one. the one above is about Alma, but it is IN Mosiah.  Sneaky.  But this one, IN Alma,   I thought  is really good too and brings it all full circl---

Alma 33:23--And then may God grant unto you that your burdens may be light, through the joy of his Son.

See how it all comes back to our relationship to God?!  It is by leaning on him, accepting His son's Atonement, following His commandments, etc. etc. that we are strengthened and given joy.    If we aren't feeling His Spirit everyday, we need to examine our lives and see if something is amiss (either sins needing repentance or sins of something we aren't doing that we should).  If everything is good in our life, then we just need to hang in there.  It will come.