How can I trust God after something terrible has happened to me?

Maybe not quickly, and maybe not the way you trusted him before. That's allowed.

This is different from asking why something happened. It's about what comes next—whether you can rebuild a relationship with God when your trust in him has been genuinely broken.

Scripture doesn't rush that process. Job never receives an explanation for what he lost. What he receives, eventually, is an encounter—he moves from having heard about God secondhand to something closer and harder to describe, without ever being told why.

Trust rebuilt like that tends to be slower than the trust you had before, and that's not a spiritual failure. Anger, confusion, and grief brought honestly to God aren't the opposite of faith. In the Bible's own prayers, they're often what faith looks like in the middle of devastation.

You don't have to arrive anywhere by a deadline. Bringing the wreckage to God, even furiously, is still bringing it to him.