You Can Trust God

You Can Trust God (Psalm 18:2)

Psalm 18:2, “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”

The symbolism of Psalm 18:2 applies to our ongoing life struggles against physical and spiritual forces. God’s care for us is described by six symbols:
(1) “my rock”—representing the safety and security of God’s steadfast strength.
(2) “my fortress”—representing a place of refuge and safety that the enemy cannot penetrate.
(3) “my deliverer”—representing God’s ability to rescue and free people from trouble.
(4) “my shield”—representing how God steps between us and harm.
(5) “horn of my salvation”—representing God’s strength and victorious power to save us.
(6) “my stronghold”—representing the fact that if we hold firmly to God and remain in a right relationship with Him, He will provide security and will lift us above the dangers of life.

Trusting God is not an easy thing to do and sometimes it goes against all human reasoning. Sometimes it means we have to relax instead of anxiously trying to bring a desired outcome to pass on our own. Trusting God means leaving the outcome of a situation in His hands without trying to influence it ourselves. This doesn’t mean that we are to sit around and not do anything. Trusting God involves working as we wait. It means we should stop worrying about the way it will turn out. Finally, it means we have to accept the outcome as God’s best for us, even if it is different than what we wanted.

God's Sovereignty.
Our trust in the Lord can be sincere when we realize that He is in control and that He is sovereign. God is in control of all that is uncontrollable in my life: what I can't see, what doesn't make sense to me, and what I don't understand. God says that He sees every tiny sparrow and counts each hair on our heads. Matthew 10:29-30, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” If God has every one of our hairs numbered, He surely knows about our present struggles. I can trust Him with my weakest doubt or my most agonizing fear. I can trust Him with what is dearest to my heart, my wife.

God's Wisdom.
In trusting God, it helps to know that He is wise. He is the skillful Creator who “possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb” (Psalm 139:13). I can trust God, knowing that everything that happens to me is thought out by an infinitely wise Person. My wisdom is inferior to God's. But when I trust His wisdom, I am able to say, "Not my will, but Thine."

God's Love.
To trust God, I must also trust His love. I can know knowledgeably that God is love, but for trust to flourish I must also be able to personalize His love for me on a daily basis. Jeremiah 31:3 proclaims to us that God loves us with an everlasting love. He promises that He will go before us, that He will always be with us, that He will never, never, never leave or forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:8). The Bible tells us in Romans 8:38-39, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The Bible proclaims the profound truth that God “works all things together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29). Whatever comes into my life is good because it is making me more like Christ. Notice that God says it is good; He doesn't say it is fun. Watching my wife suffer a few years ago was not fun. Preaching a funeral for your family is not fun. Problems with coworkers and friends, deadlines, stress, and heartaches are not fun. But God promises there is purpose in suffering. It is "good" because as I grow to trust Him with my pains and pressures, my character will become more like His. My love will be less self-centered; my decisions will be wiser.

What does it mean to humble myself under the mighty hand of God? It means to place total trust in God alone. It means the surrender of my whole being: intellect, emotion, will, plans, and judgments. It means relinquishing everything to Him. It means renouncing my tendency to step in and wrest control. It means casting it all on Him... and leaving it there. Why should I trust God? Because He is trustworthy. He deserves my trust. When I trust Him, I participate in purposes and plans that transcend my own. But even more, I want to trust Him. Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” And more than anything, I desire to please my God.

PRAYER: Father, too often I fail to trust in You when You Word instructs me to. I believe that Your Word is true. Help me to trust in You just like a child trusts completely in a loving parent. Thank You that You are always faithful. I love You! In Jesus' name. Amen.

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