The Young Man Who Could Only Say Yes

In 1887, at a D.L. Moody revival meeting, the music director Daniel Towner watched as person after person stood to share polished testimonies of faith. Then a young man rose — nervous, unpolished, clearly unsure of himself. He said simply, "I'm not quite sure. But I am going to trust, and I am going to obey."

Towner was so struck by those plain words that he jotted them down and later sent them to the hymn writer John Sammis. From that fumbling testimony came one of the most enduring hymns in the church: Trust and Obey.

What moves me about this story is what the young man did not say. He didn't claim to have everything figured out. He didn't offer a theology of obedience. He simply decided — in the middle of his uncertainty — to take the next step.

That is exactly what obedience looks like most of the time. It is not a dramatic moment of clarity. It is a quiet decision to follow when the path ahead is still foggy. Abraham left Ur without a map. Moses approached Pharaoh with a stutter. Mary said yes to an angel with no idea what was coming.

The Almighty does not wait for us to understand before He asks us to move. He asks us to trust Him enough to put one foot in front of the other — and the obedience itself becomes the path.

When you don't know what's next, you already know what's enough: trust, and obey.