One of the hardest areas of trusting God is in the arena of people. When people give us a hard time, when we are persecuted, even when we are mistreated.
Bridges addresses this in chapter 4 of the book. He says that it is much easier to trust God in big events in our lives, but not with our struggles with people. This chapter is filled with examples from Scripture of our heroes of the faith and how they reacted when they had encountered trials.
Someone this morning mentioned that Trusting God is easier when it comes to catastrophic events, but when it comes to our lives, specially dealing with people we fold and begin to doubt.
Another great point that someone made this morning was to equate God's Sovereignty with God's Lordship; so to say that God is Sovereign, it's to say that God is Lord of all.
One more thing, after reading this chapter, I found that I tend to use the sovereignty of God as an excuse for my irresponsibility or my lack of trusting. I tend to use that as a cop-out, instead of taking comfort on the fact that our God Reigns and thus is sovereign.
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