Faith vs. Trust

In my view, faith is a gift [see I Cor. 12:9]. Something I HAVE. A noun. It requires no action. An example: God IS and CAN act. This I believe through the gift of faith —“evidence of things unseen” Heb 11:1]. The Spirit can both initiate and bolster it.
Trust, however, is the result, the maturation, of faith. It’s a verb, something I DO, and results in the noun. Example: I BELIEVED that God would sell our condo in time to save us from insolvency. I had to have faith in him first, that He is and can act, causing things to happen or changing the natural order in which things unfold. But to TRUST requires a belief that He would, in his time and manner, better than I could have arranged it. In this instance, trust required repeated reinforcement, because I’ve an old habit of playing ping-pong with God—repeatedly taking the ball back after I’ve bounced it to him. Trust is not instinctual for me; it requires conscious self-reminding. He remained lovingly patient with me,
consistently answering my prayers with “Wait!” Then, to prove his attentiveness, after exactly three years to the week, he arranged the first person to make an offer request that we be out in three weeks, and paid cash! What a blessing—and what a lesson for us to learn. Our God is an awesome God!