Lived trust

I attended the annual Western Theological Seminary alumni lecture on Monday afternoon. Dr. Ellen Davis from Duke Divinity School presented a lecture titled, "My Devoted Friend": Abraham and the Origin of Intercessory Prayer. Here's a quote she used from Eliezer Berkovits in With God in Hell: Judaism in the Ghettos and Deathcamps where Abraham's experience of being asked to sacrifice Isaac is cited.

"Almighty God! What you are asking of me is terrible. I do not understand You. You contradict yourself. But I have known You, My God. You have loved me and I love You. My God, You are breaking Your word to me. What is one to think of You! Yet I trust You. Such was the trust of Abraham in God and such was the trust of the authentic Jew in the ghettos and the concentration camps...Trust is the bond of love between two who have found each other, who belong to each other. It is not reason that it rejects; it is the hurt that it overcomes. Trust affirms the reality of the relationship. It is the truth of the covenant action."

The question being confronted in the Abraham narratives; "God - is this somebody I can trust?"
Reminded me of Job's great affirmation of faith, "Though God slay me, yet will I trust God!"
I declare that I'm in this lived trust with Abraham and Job as was Jesus as he cries about forsakenness on the cross.