Dear Friend,
My heart is filled with so much Joy as I send you this journal because I know that God will speak to you through his word today, Read on and have a blessed day.
PROVERBS 3:5-6
- Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
- In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
This passage of scripture opens up with the word Trust which is a result of one’s faith, assurance, confidence, dependence, reliance, belief, and hope in another.
Trust is a very delicate subject that is handled with so much care whenever mentioned or discussed due to the above-stated factors involved. It is often seen as risky and thus creates fear in the hearts of many causing them either to never trust or to partly trust. No wonder the scripture encourages us to trust in the Lord with all of our hearts.
2 kings 17: 14-20 and Psalms 78: 21, 22 records the consequences of not trusting in the Lord. The descendants of Israel were rejected and punished just because they did not place their confidence in God their creator and sustainer. Sad, very sad.
I wonder how many believers are living their lives not trusting God, not believing that he who has begun the good work in them is faithful to complete it.
Brother Job was being tried and tested yet he put his hope in God (Job 13:15) because he believed just like David that God will never forsake or leave him destitute (Ps 9: 10), he would experience God’s goodness (Ps 27:13) and the fulfilment of God’s will (Ps 37:5) for his life.)
There is prosperity (Prov 28:25) and safety in trusting God (Ps 125:1, Prov 29:25). When you trust in the Lord, you’re blessed, covered, hidden, protected, never shaken, never moved.
I am reminded of a hymn I sang as a child
Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to take Him at His word
Just to rest upon His promise, Just to know “Thus saith the Lord.”
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! O for grace to trust Him more!
Oh how sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to trust His cleansing blood
Just in simple faith to plunge, ‘neath the healing cleansing flood!
Yes, tis sweet to trust in Jesus, Just from sin and self to cease
Just from Jesus simply taking, Life and rest and joy and peace.
I’m so glad I learned to trust Him, Precious Jesus, Saviour Friend
And I know that He is with me, Will be with me to the end
(Louisa M. R. Stead)
O for grace to trust him more in your education, career, relationship, finances, plans, etc.
God has made his sufficient grace available to strengthen and enable you to trust him more, I encourage you to withdraw as much as you need and trust him today even concerning that situation challenging you now.
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