How Do You Trust God When He Gives You a Big Risk?

What do you do when you believe God is asking you to take a step that makes absolutely no sense on paper?

Maybe it’s leaving the job. Moving your family. Saying yes to something you never imagined for your life. Stepping into a calling that feels bigger than you. Or simply taking the next step when you have no idea where it will lead.

In this episode of Wine Into Water, Jen and Lydia talk about what it really looks like to trust God when obedience feels risky.

Jen shares about leaving the corporate world, moving her family back to Iowa, and the moments when she had to move forward without knowing what the outcome would be. Lydia reflects on a life filled with big yeses — including adopting eleven children and preparing to donate a kidney to one of her daughters — and why the biggest acts of obedience haven't necessarily come without fear.

Together, they wrestle with a hard truth: sometimes God doesn't give us the whole plan.

He gives us enough light for the next step.

And sometimes we take that step believing we know where He's leading, only to discover that the road changes. Doors close. Plans fall apart. The thing we thought God was asking us to do turns out to be different than we imagined.

Maybe faith isn't about being certain of the outcome.

Maybe it's about being certain of the One you're walking with.

Jen and Lydia also talk about the temptation to compare our calling to someone else's, the pressure to chase the life the world tells us we should want, and why obedience often looks far less glamorous than it does from the outside.

Because following God isn't always Instagram-ready.

Sometimes it's exciting. Sometimes it's terrifying. Sometimes it's beautiful. And sometimes, as Lydia puts it, it's really poopy.

But there is something extraordinary about looking back at a road you never would have chosen for yourself and realizing that God was with you through all of it.

This episode is for anyone who:

• Feels like God may be asking them to take a risk
• Is waiting for certainty before taking the next step
• Has taken a leap of faith and is wondering why things aren't unfolding the way they expected
• Finds themselves comparing their calling to someone else's
• Wants to trust God without needing to control the outcome

Because maybe trusting God doesn't mean knowing how the story ends.

Maybe it means taking the step in front of you, letting Him show you the next one, and trusting that what is meant for you will not miss you.

And maybe, years from now, you'll look back at the road obedience took you down and think:

What a ride.