What It Really Means to Trust God With Something You’re Building

For a long time, I thought trusting God meant feeling confident about where I was going. I thought it meant having some kind of clear direction—something that made sense, something I could point to and say, “This is it. This is what I’m supposed to be doing.” But the more I walk through this season, especially with writing this book, the more I’m realizing that trust doesn’t really look like that.

It looks a lot quieter. It looks like showing up when you’re not completely sure. It looks like taking the next step without having the full picture. It looks like continuing something even when you don’t know how it’s all going to turn out.

And if I’m being honest, that’s a lot harder than just having a clear plan. Because when you’re building something—whether it’s a book, a business, a dream, or even just trying to figure out your life—you naturally want results. You want progress you can measure. You want some kind of confirmation that you’re doing the “right” thing. I’ve felt that too. There have been moments where I’ve caught myself thinking, Is this going anywhere? Is this actually going to matter? Am I doing this right?

And in those moments, I’ve realized how quickly my focus shifts from God’s will to my outcome. But trusting God with something you’re building means letting go of that need to control the outcome. That doesn’t mean completely ignoring it, but rather loosening your grip on it. It means choosing to believe that what He’s doing in you is just as important as what you’re trying to create through you.

One of the biggest things I’ve been learning is that God is not just interested in the final result. He’s interested in the process. In the way your heart changes while you’re working on something. In the way your faith deepens when things don’t go as planned. In the way you learn to rely on Him instead of yourself. Because at the end of the day, the thing you’re building might succeed in the way you hoped—or it might not.

But the way you walk with God through it? That’s what actually stays. I think a lot of us hesitate to fully trust God with the things we’re building because we’re afraid of wasting time or getting it wrong. We think, What if I put all this effort into something and it doesn’t work out?

But what I’m starting to understand is that nothing is wasted when it’s placed in God’s hands. Even the things that don’t turn out the way we expected can still be used by Him in ways we don’t see right away.

If you’re in a season where you’re building something—or even just trying to take the next step in your life—I don’t think the question is, “Do I have this all figured out?”

I think the better question is, “Am I trusting God with what’s in front of me right now?”

Not the whole future. Not the final outcome. Just this step.

Because trust isn’t about having certainty. It’s about staying close to God amid uncertainty. It’s about continuing to show up, continuing to move forward, and continuing to place what you’re building in His hands—even when you don’t fully understand what He’s doing with it yet. And that’s what it really means to trust Him. Not having all the answers, but choosing to walk forward anyway—learning, as it says in 2 Corinthians 5:7, to walk by faith and not by sight.