Trust is what is needed today. We need to know where our trust comes from or where it is based.
Trust usually comes from experiences. If your car has never had a breakdown, when you get behind the wheel today, you can trust that you’re going to make it home safely. Something else might occur on your drive home, but it probably won’t be your car’s fault. That is a form of trust from experience. “It’s good as it’s always been and it’s always been good.” – Hilton Sutton
Trust gives us confidence.
If someone told you that you could, say, get a free bag of groceries if you drove to a store 45 minutes away, you might makes plans to do it. Many times we make decisions on the basis of trust. You and your family could enjoy that free food, if you decide to make that drive. Trust can get you things that you might want, but don’t have now.
Frenetic Thinking
Let’s say, while you’re considering the trip, you then remember that you only have a quarter tank of gas or maybe an 1/8 tank. Soon apprehension or fear creeps in and you’re not so sure about getting started in that direction. An amazing thing is that, this process happens in our minds, while nothing has happened in the physical and takes only a matter of seconds. Then you think:
- I could stop and fill up, but I don’t know how much cash I brought with me.
- If I could borrow just $20 from someone, I could buy some gas, but who could I ask?
Nothing has happened yet and we have jumped back and forth between trust (or faith) and fear (or apprehension). I could happen a number of times and the person sitting next to you has no idea you’re jumping all over the place in your mind.
So now, this kind of trust is depending on circumstances.
Maybe you heard that the store is in a bad part or town and you’re all by yourself.
Now, your trust is depending on what you’ve heard.
Can you see where this is going?
That’s why we need to have trust, so the foundation of our life is firm and we can make good choices.
Jas 1:6b. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Without trust, some people don’t want to or are unable to leave their homes. We’ve seen this because of the “pandemic”.
Gaining Control
A way to gain control over people is to cause them to lose trust in their government, their security, their neighbors, their own resourcefulness, their constitution and their God.
Who do we know is trying to gain control over people?
In the words of SNL’s Church Lady, “Is it Satan?” The sad thing about those comedy sketches is that they try to remove the possibility of Satanic interference in peoples lives by using humor to make it seem irrelevant and silly. Don’t be deceived. You have an enemy who wants to control you life and actions.
Let see what the Bible says.
1Ch 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
1Ch 21:2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
1Ch 21:3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1Ch 21:4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
Satan stood up against a nation.
Who would have thought?
He provoked the nations leader not to trust God…
He provoked the leader not to take sound counsel…Hello?
Whose advice should we consider first, the insinuations from a comedy sketch or the Word of God and our own eyes? Dealing with Satan and his deceptions and manipulations is something we all must attend to.
You’ll be confronted
Is having trust in ourselves, in our futures, and in God important to our lives? It needs to be! When people confront you with their “logic” we need to answer them with our faith and trust. That is something that they can’t respond to, because many of them don’t understand it. So they’l make fun of people of faith and trust. They’ll say you’re naive. Believing that we don’t have an enemy is naive! As we take a trusting stand, we make our life’s foundation stronger.
We can’t put our trust in experiences, circumstances, or what we’ve heard, before our trust in God. Some us need to get engraved on our hearts what’s engraved on our money, In God We Trust.
Stand Up and Speak Up
We need to declare to the fear mongers of this age with a warm, calm, sincere smile and an assured tone that we trust in God and that’s what frames our actions and our world. Let the devil declare that he’s loosing all the evil of hell at us in a single day. Our response should be exactly the same. “I trust in God and we shall overcome.”
Where you place your trust will determine if you get your groceries or not. There will always be naysayers. Always. Why? They want to control you by what they say. God wants you to be in control. He thinks you will make the best decisions, because you can trust in your God.
Circumstances change, God doesn’t.
Some might ask “How can I have trust in a God we can’t see?” Seriously, billions of peoples have believed in gods that can’t see and you need visible proof? If so, you are what’s known as an unbeliever.
The Real Problem
The problem is, and always has been, to trust in His word and take action on it. Not by just a random prosperity scripture and try to test it. Read the Bible and do what the scripture is telling you to. If it says forgive, do it, if it says repent, do it, if it say give, then do it. This is probably why some people don’t read God’s word. They are too proud to do what God is telling them to do. They want to think that they are the ones calling all the shots. If people can trust in God and do what he says, they can see the results He promises.
Consequences
I our scripture, David, like Adam, followed the advice of Satan and paid a penalty for it. Because of David’s stubborn disobedience, a plague took the lives of 7,000 of his subjects. Each death hurt the King’s conscience bitterly, since he knew it was his fault they died.
As a side note, if someone tries to fault God for the deaths of the innocent, you can tell them they have little understanding of eternity. Those people were swept off this mortal coil into the presence of God and his angels, they are enjoying eternal life. They haven’t suffered, compared to what they’re enjoying.
A Lesson Learned
So was it important for King David to learn to trust God? Decidedly so, for we read in Psalm 20 as he declares:
Psa 20:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psa 20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
Psa 20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Psa 20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Psa 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
Psa 20:6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Psa 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember (or trust in)the name of the LORD our God.
Psa 20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Psa 20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Let’s remember to declare each day, “In God we trust”.
Then let’s go get all of what God has for us.
Amen.
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