Trusting the Developer

Every few weeks, a notification appears on your phone: "Software update available. Your device will restart." Most of us tap "Install Tonight" without reading the release notes. We don't audit the code. We don't demand a full explanation of every change. We simply trust that the engineers at Apple or Google have seen vulnerabilities we cannot see, fixed problems we didn't know existed, and strengthened systems we rely on every day.

That trust isn't blind. It's built on a track record — years of updates that made our devices faster, safer, more reliable. Even when an update changed something we liked, we eventually recognized the wisdom behind it.

This is a picture of what it means to trust God. When life delivers a notification we didn't request — a job loss, a diagnosis, a door that closes — our instinct is to resist the restart. We want to stay on the version of life we understood. But the One who designed us sees vulnerabilities we cannot see. He knows the threats gathering in the background, the security patches our souls need, the features He wants to build in us.

Proverbs 3:5 says to trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Not because understanding is wrong, but because His understanding runs deeper than any code we could read.

The Developer is trustworthy. Let the update install.