Trust for Every Day and Every Way

 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. …

Proverbs 3:5,6

No relationship between two people will survive without trust.  Trust in the marriage, among friends, and in business partnership, is fundamentally necessary.  Our spiritual life is exactly the same.  Our relationship with God begins and proceeds upon the basis of trust.  We must proceed in the certain confidence that God has not, is not, and will not deceive us.  God wants us to trust Him and is keen to assure us that our trust in Him is never misplaced.  He exhorts us to trust in Him with our whole heart, forsaking confidence in our own reasoning, guaranteeing that He will infallibly guide us.

There is the very act of trust, which is where we begin.  We trust that God is, that God has revealed Himself, that His Word is true, the Gospel is accurate, and that Christ is the Savior of not only all who believe but of us in particular.  We rest in these things, rely upon them, and use them as the very foundations of our life.

What we truly trust is what we rely upon totally.  “The LORD” is the object of our trust.  If I described to you a dependable automobile, computer, or tool, and was attempting to convince you that it was trustworthy, I would point out to you all the features which proved that it is reliable.  In describing God as the object of our trust, the list would be endless.  His absolute trustworthiness is inherent in the very idea of His God-hood.  This is the God that you can trust. Halfway measures are not for us.  He would have all our dependence. The great enemy of your trust is your own inclination to “lean. . . unto thine own understanding.”  So long as you are certain that your understanding of what course to take is all that is necessary to safely guide you, you will not trust God as you ought.  The true-hearted saint of God knows that we are the owners of some very weak, inaccurate, and unreliable understanding.  The scope of your trust is that “in all thy ways acknowledge Him.”  There is no limitation to the areas of life wherein you can acknowledge your need of God’s direction.  Even the smallest things are prime candidates to be areas where we acknowledge God.  The result of such trust is that “He shall direct thy paths.”  This is a great security for our souls.  Our God will direct our paths.  He will show us the way we ought to go.  Acknowledge Him in every way every day. 

Where the Bush is Burning
Tomm Tice