What is “trust?” [Prov. 3:5]
To understand this verse, we must understand the fundamental difference between “believe” and “trust.”
How many of you have heard of Jean-Francois Gravelet? He was born in France on Feb. 28, 1824. He died in London on Feb. 22, 1897. He is better known as Charles Blondin. Blondin was a funambulist? Funambulist means tightrope walker.
Charles Blondin was the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope, a 3” hemp rope, 1,100 feet long In 1859 and 1860 he walked across it 160 feet above the Niagara River, just below the falls, several times, each time with a different, daring feat: dressed in a sack, walking on stilts, pushing a wheelbarrow full of potatoes, riding a bicycle. One time he stopped in mid-section and cooked an omelet on a small portable stove.
If you stood in the crowd and he came up to you with his wheelbarrow and asked, “Do you believe that I can push you across in this?” undoubtedly you would say “Yes.” What would your answer be if he then said, “Get in?” That’s a different story!
Many, many people believe in the Lord Jesus. I dare say virtually all of you do. But many fewer people trust the Lord, are willing to “get in the wheelbarrow.” “Trust in the Lord” means to be fully confident or sure; to be bold in action. “with all your heart” means with the center of your being, at the deepest level, fully and completely.
[General authentication on Blondin: New York Times, 7/18/1859, p.3]