I must admit, I don’t always trust very well. Habit of my childhood perhaps.
In this year of various trials, God has shown me more of Himself and more of what I need to see of Him. In reading His Word, I learn. I was reading Isaiah several weeks ago and wrote down this verse: “This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.”
If you read the rest in context you see that the people of that day wanted nothing to do with what God had said. They preferred to do it their own way. To flee on horses (to run away). They didn’t want to face whatever threat stood before them. They didn’t want to admit they needed to admit to God they were wrong.
Do you struggle with being honest with God? It’s hard to search our hearts, even harder to confess we don’t measure up to what God requires. We like control. We don’t want to surrender to what God has for us.
In repentance and rest is your salvation…We can’t have salvation, rescue, relationship with our God any other way.
In quietness and trust is your strength. The other day I sat in my office looking up at the blue skies and the tree whose leaves are beginning to change and I realized “I trust you, God.”
In Psalm 25:1, David says, “To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.” In you I trust, O my God.
And I said it aloud again and again. I wrote it in my journal. I trust you, Lord. I trust you to… And you know what? Peace filled me. I wasn’t anxious or upset. I knew God was in absolute control of all things, of my life, of the things that concerned me, and He would handle them. I just needed to wait in quietness and trust.
To those who prefer to runaway, God says, “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!”
Blessed are all who wait for him!
Those who wait on the Lord are blessed.
How about you? Are able to trust in the Lord? Or is there a something that you just can’t let go?
Rest assured God can handle it! He can! And He wants us to believe, to trust Him. To acknowledge that He truly is in control of this wildly spinning universe (which He made) and has our best interest at heart. He longs to be gracious to us! He longs for it!
With a God like that, I think it’s worth giving Him a chance, don’t you? Trust Him with your worries, give Him your besetting sins, rest in His Word. He won’t let you down.
Selah~
