There are several reasons why we don't trust God and go our own way in spite of God's faithfulness to us. One is that we believe that there is "good" apart from God's will and plan for us. We are tempted to not believe that God is for us all the way. Second reason (like the first reason) is that we don't trust God even when he is faithful is because we don't believe God really loves us. We believe God has ulterior motives and that he cannot be trusted. In Genesis 29:31-31:24 we find that there are consequences to not trusting in God's love from the example of Leah and Rachael's trust of Jacob's love for them. Now, Jacob is not a great family man in this passage so his similarity to God stops very short, but when you take the scene as a whole you find that love has been forgotten and written out of the equation on their relationships.

You will learn that some of the way you may forget God's love is when: 1) you try to earn God's love, 2) you compare God's love to human love, 3) you get into a conflict with God or with others, 4) when you covet someone or something as more valuable than God, and 5) when you fail to pray or acknowledge God is the person who gives all good gifts.

Watch and be encouraged to trust in the God who created the world and the God who loves.