Jeremiah 17:7 “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”
It may be silly to ask this question, but what do you think
it means to trust in the Lord? Most people say and even believe they trust in
the Lord, but do they? On a scale of one to ten with ten being 100% what is your
trust level in the Lord? The word “trust” means – to be confident or sure in
someone or something, it also means to be sure and have hope in it. – This word
is aligned with faith, but they are somewhat different. Our trust in the Lord
makes us blessed and the more trust we have the more and stronger the blessing we
have. Our blessings are centered in our hope through our trusting God. However,
the stronger trust we have the stronger faith we have and the more blessed we
are. The Lord said in Psalms 125:1 “A Song of degrees. “They that trust in
the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.”
So, when is our trust in God strong enough, when we are unmovable from trusting
in Him. This trust all starts with how strong your belief in in God’s Sovereignty
or God ability to control everything in your life. The preacher Solomon wrote
in Ecc. 3:1 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven:” God just said that to “everything”, that would include
anything that exist whether it is an event, tome, happening, or anything else
in your life. Believing in the sovereignty of God means that we understand that
every step of our life is by the appointed will and power of God. God has
appointed every happening in our life by His will and for His purpose. Most
Christians and at time all Christians have trouble with this. Sometimes when
some events or happenings develop, we do not understand what is happening and
fail to remember first that God is controlling it. Let’s test your trust and
faith in God, how strongly do believe in Romans 8:28 “And we know that all
things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose.” Did you say a 7 – 10? Do you genuinely believe “that
all things work together for good”? Now can you say truthfully in your
heart that you “KNOW” and believe that everything, everything in your life is
(1) ordained of God for you, and (20) works out for some good in your life, without
though or question? When God said, “They that trust in the LORD shall be as
mount Zion” why did He mention mount Zion, because He said, “which
cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.” This is exactly where both our
trust and faith both ought to be in God. Without doubt, question, or fear, but recognize
that anything or everything, is appointed by God and that everything in life
has a good for us. John Gill had these remarks, “Who trust not in themselves, and in their own
hearts; nor in anything of theirs, their strength or wisdom, riches or
righteousness; nor in any creature whatever, in the mightiest or best of men;
but in the Lord; in God, as the God of nature and providence, for all temporal
mercies; and in him, as the God of grace, for all spiritual and eternal ones;
who should be trusted in at all times, whether of affliction, temptation, or
darkness; for which there is abundant reason.” God said in Jeremiah 17:7 - 8 “Blessed
is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall
be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and
shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding
fruit.” If our trust in the Lord is strong as it should be that we will
never worry about the happenings in our life but instead we will pray and look
for the good in the outcome. We may not always see the good bit we must still
trust God in them.
