Trusting God is LIKE breathing for the True Christians. "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). Just as our earthly teachers may have instructed us to sit up straight at our chairs to breathe correctly, so do we endeavor to encourage the body to trust God more fully. The LORD Jesus Christ is worthy of our trust. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing" (Revelation 5:12). If we would only combine the necessities of our circumstances with the Spirit-led discoveries of who God is and how He will fulfill our needs, then we would avail ourselves of the opportunity to trust Him more.
If we can understand, by God's Spirit, what the Apostle Paul knew about the necessity of our "infirmities", then we would also "glory" in the opportunities for His grace, i.e., His character and Promises, to supply our every need. This would only cause us to trust Him more. "And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the Power of Christ may rest upon me" (2Corinthians 12:9).
GOD alone is worthy of our trust. "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?" (Numbers 23:19). If you question the LORD's worthiness of your confidence and trust, then you are simply not putting your "trust under the shadow of [His] wings" (Psalm 36:7). The excellency of knowing and trusting Jesus Christ is worth the "loss of all things" (Philippians 3:8) to the True Christian. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ" (3:8).
The True Believer does not ask why he should trust God; instead, he asks, "How can I trust God more fully?" The Apostle Paul understood that his faith was strengthened, when he approached his divinely allowed "necessities" as being for "Christ's sake" (2Corinthians 12:10). "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong" (12:10). This indicates that Paul knew that his necessities were actually opportunities to trust God.
IN GOD WE TRUST :
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