Trusting is Risking - or is it?

I've been thinking a lot about the risk of trusting God. But then again it isn't really that much of risk. We can live our lives alone, face the odds in our own strength and reasoning, strive to meet our created needs in whatever we find that fills them. At least temporarily. Or we can choose to place faith and trust in one who is higher, stronger, kinder, wiser, and more faithful than anyone or any thing else. In Him we have more fulfillment, joy, peace, and security than any lover, career, hobby, bottle, meditation, ritual, or gun. With Him we have comfort, hope, endurance, promise, goodness, grace, mercy, and kindness to come alongside us through this messy, sinful, and painful world. We are promised to be taken out of this place and be given purity and peace and release from such things, once we are in Heaven. But for now we have a purpose. To share God with others, to live out the things He gives us so that others will see and want and reach for it too. I'm not saying it's easy - because I know firsthand that it is not! But it is simple. It's simply Jesus and following His Word! The risk He took on us is far greater than the risk we have to take Him. My prayer is that God will give me a heart that is willing to take the risk day by day - and live out His Word and promised gifts day by day!