How To Trust God When The World Feels Broken

This article is by Karin Hadadan is the best-selling author of Beauty in the Stillness, which has been praised for helping readers “unravel the God self that is truly within you.”

There is a difference between knowing God’s promise in your soul and learning to live it out in your everyday life. Your soul knows truths the mind has yet to accept. Living your life from your soul, not your mind, means you see the world as full of love and your heart full of gratitude, despite the fact the actual world around you might feel broken, sad, and unchanged. This is not delusion. This is the call of faith, to see beyond what meets the eye.

Deep down, you already sense the calling of your soul from God. Maybe it shows up as a quiet intuition about the work you’re meant to do, the kind of love you’re meant to build, or the peace you’re meant to grow into. That inner knowing doesn’t ask for proof or permission—it simply asks you to keep showing up and believing in greater things. To keep believing when doors stay closed. To walk as if the promise is real, even when the situation feels hopeless and things don’t make sense.

There will be times when your mind wants to take over—when logic, fear, and memory start shouting louder than faith. You’ll look at your life and wonder if you imagined it all. You’ll question whether you misheard God, whether you waited too long, whether you missed your chance. But faith isn’t about what you can prove; it’s about who you keep trusting when everything looks uncertain. The mind seeks control, but the soul rests in surrender. When you learn to rest there, peace starts to rise even before the breakthrough does.

Living from your soul means walking with quiet confidence. It’s choosing to speak life when your circumstances are filled with doubt and difficulty. It’s taking small steps toward what feels right in your spirit, even if it looks foolish to others. It’s trusting that obedience opens paths logic could never see. Every day you show up with love, gratitude, and patience, you’re aligning your life with what God has already written for you.

This way of living turns waiting into preparation. When you stop chasing external signs and start tending to your inner life—your prayer, your gratitude, your peace—you stop needing proof that God is working. You begin to feel it. The still, small voice becomes enough. The act of believing becomes sacred. And in that quiet faithfulness, you grow into the person ready to receive what’s coming.

You’ll have moments when you feel out of rhythm with the world—when others don’t understand your peace or question your pace. That’s okay. Faith often looks premature to people who only believe in what they can see. Keep going. The gap between what you know inside and what you see outside is not a mistake—it’s the space where transformation happens. It’s where God reshapes your life to match what He placed in your heart.

Trust that His timeline isn’t a delay but a design. Every setback, every waiting season, every moment of uncertainty is part of the preparation. You’re being shaped to hold what you’ve prayed for. When the promise finally shows up, it won’t just be something you receive—it will be something you’ve become ready for.

So keep walking. Keep believing. Keep showing up in love and faith, even when the world hasn’t caught up to what God already spoke. Walk in the promise. Live as if it’s already unfolding—because it is. God’s promise is not far from you; it’s already alive within you, waiting for the world to see what your soul has known all along.