Trusting God! What it entails
Now since
surrendering one’s life to God is a covenant between the individual and God, it
is the individual’s responsibility to allow God to have full control over
his/her life, and believe it or not it is incumbent upon God in whom the
individual has placed his/her trust, as a matter of responsibility and
obligation to exercise full control over the individual.
In this regard
we have been comforted with these words, “He who dwells in the shelter of the
Most High, who abides in the shadow of the almighty, will say to the Lord, ‘My
refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” Because of the confidence and
rest, due to the trust one has in God, He will deliver you from the snare of
the fowler and from the deadly pestilence; He will cover you with His pinions,
and under His wings you will find refuge.
His faithfulness
is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the
arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the
destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand
at your right hand; but it will not come near you. You will only look with your
eyes and see the recompense of the wicked” (Psalms 91:1-8).
These promises however,
are conditional, they do not occur automatically even though one professes to
believe in God, it is God’s duly responsibility to those who has made the Lord
their refuge, who has placed their trust in God. The psalmist continues,
“Because (conditional) you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your
habitation, no evil shall befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For, He will give His angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. On
their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You
will tread on the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you will
trample under foot.”
Again, conditionally, “Because he cleaves to Me
in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows My name. When
he calls to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue
him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My
salvation” (Psalms 91:9-16).
We can therefore
have full trust and confidence in God to keep His part of the covenant, because
as He says, “God is not man, that He should lie or a son of man, that he should
repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not
fulfill it?”
And thus says
the Lord, “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore, you are not consumed,
O sons of Jacob.” Now since God in whom we place our trust and confidence to be
our refuge, shelter, protection, safety, security from danger and trouble, and
who is trustworthy and just, and does not change, why then should we believers
who profess to have trust in God, murmur, and complaint when things are not
going well, especially our way?
Especially when
we have been admonished to, “Do all things without complaining or arguing, so
that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault, in a
crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the
universe”(Philippians 2:14-15).
The reason why
we are not to complaint and argue as believers it is because, “It is God who
works in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
Furthermore, we
have been instructed saying that, “All things works together for good to those
who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
The obvious
reason why those of us who claimed to have surrendered our lives to God become
disillusioned, discouraged, despondent, disenchanted, fearful, and pessimistic
it is because we do not trust God as we profess to be, it is that simple.
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to be continued
With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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