Control v. trust

This idea of control versus trust was presented in class in reference to Till We Have Faces. Orual is really encountering this when she is trying to convince Psyche to use light to see the face of her husband. How often do people want there to be a light shone on God? To see the face of the Creator? Even when we are told that we will face God one day. One day we will be face to face with the one who gave us life and will answer for our life and the choices we made in it. Yet people want that now, they want certainty to make choices having already seen that face they will one day face. The culture we are in now, thinks it to be logical that we must have certainty before we place our actions on the line for something. Somehow there is courage, like Nietzche talks about, facing the nothingness courageously. But I feel there is more courage if you were to trust the unknown, the dangerous and fearsome God of the Old Testament. The God that made Himself man and suffered with us and for us. The God that we can know and talk to. Taking control of something that is not even yours, due to the fact that we aren't self-created. We must trust in that which gave us life. In along the thought of Pascal, why would we not bet everything on this Great God we are told about in the Judaeo-Christian Scriptures? This isn't air tight, nor perfect in logic. But when the thought of control versus trust came up that's what came to mind. That we have a culture that wants to control. Yet it appears that might come from the fact that deep down they know they can't. They are scared to trust in something unknown and dangerous such as the Great God and Creator of the universe. Why that scares people I don't know, each person has their own reason. Yet it appears to be the world we live in, fearful of the unknown. Allowing that fear to have them cave in to comfort, the temporal comfort of this world.