But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
Trust comes first in this verse, and joy comes after — not the other way around. "I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice." The rejoicing isn't the reason to trust. It's what follows once trust is already in place.
That ordering might be useful if you've been waiting to feel something before you'd consider believing anything. A lot of people hold faith at arm's length until it produces some emotional payoff first — until it feels good, or comforting, or certain. This verse suggests the feeling isn't the entry point. Trust is. Joy shows up downstream of it, sometimes slowly, sometimes only in hindsight.
You're not required to feel anything today to take this seriously. You're only being shown one person's honest account of how it worked for him — trust placed first, in something he couldn't fully verify yet, and joy that arrived because of it, not before it.
If you've been waiting for a feeling before you'd consider faith, it might be worth trying the trust first and seeing what follows.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.