A Reflection On Trust

When I want to depend on God alone

Those of us who claim a relationship with God have placed our trust in Him. But few of us have learned to trust the Lord alone. We usually trust the Lord and financial resources, medical research, counselors’ advice, popular opinion, or any number of other things. None of these in themselves are necessarily false helps. The issue is our heart attitude of trust. Do we know in our hearts where our help really comes from? It comes from God.

Pure trust hangs everything on an invisible God. It does not hedge its bets but believes that God, as He is revealed in His Word, will act toward us as we have been told He will. In the end, it is the safest trust there is. God has never failed anyone who has invested all hopes in Him.

How pure is your trust? Are you using God to fill in the gaps around your other sources of help? If so, do not expect the blessedness of being abandoned to Him. That only comes with a pure, unbridled faith in God alone. Make the Lord your exclusive trust, and expect to be blessed.

Oh, the joys of those who trust the LORD.

Psalm 40:4