Here’s the difference between faith and trust in normal human terms. I trust that my wife is faithful.
I don’t faith that she is. Faith was at the beginning of the relationship! Now, i trust her.
It is to be the same with God. We start in faith, but end up knowing what He’s really like, so we trust Him.
Of course, as we all know, people aren’t as reliable as God. And if we’ve had experiences of unfaithfulness with people, we often transfer that into our relationship with God. But gradually, we see the difference between our experiences of other’s unfaithfulness, and our experience of God’s faithfulness!
He turns out to be the most trustworthy thing in the universe.
Faith develops towards and into trust as we walk daily with Him over time, and through life’s many seasons.
We walk from faith to trust in the spiritual journey.
To trust Him in every situation, even when we are blind is to know what He is really like. Once we know, He really is loving, good, gentle, patient etc…we come to trust Him in every single situation.
Trust is based on knowing who He is. Faith guides us into who He is; our response is trust!