Trust God!

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.”

-- Psalm 128:1-2

   A few days ago, we were reading the gospel of John, and I noticed this verse:

“Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.”

 -- John 6:27

   Isn’t it comforting to know that we don’t have to worry about the needs of this earth? If we trust in God and work for eternal treasure, He will provide all our needs.

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

–Matthew 6:19-21

   Now of course that doesn’t mean you can be lazy! God might be providing your needs by giving you a job. Since God provided the job for you, you should do your best at it; but you shouldn’t worry about your paycheck. God will take care of that. Remember, it isn’t you working that takes care of you, it isn’t any effort you make that provides for you, it is God! If it wasn’t God who was taking care of you, your labor would be in vain.

“Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” 

-- Psalm 127:1

   Trust God!

“They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth forever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.”

   -- Psalm 125:1-2

   It is so wonderful and easy to trust God. It seems strange that we might want to make it hard for ourselves by trusting in our own strength, our earthly smartness. We must try not to get caught up in the world’s affairs and fix our eyes on Jesus instead. He’ll take care of me; I know!

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment?

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?

Or, What shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

-- Matthew 6:25-34

   As I continued my studies in the gospel of John, I noticed something quite interesting. The Pharisees would try to understand what Jesus said, but it was impossible. Their carnal minds tried to fathom God but failed miserably. They couldn’t hear His words because He was from God; they were from the Devil. No one can hear God’s words with his carnal understanding. He must be born again and receive the mind of Christ.

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

-- Proverbs 3:5-6