November 10, 2022 -- Psalm 9:10 -- Trust that crushes worry

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And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psalm 9:10 ESV

Trust is the character trait in focus for today. Notice the context wherein the word trust is placed. Those who know the Name of the LORD willingly put their trust in Him. The point is this: to know the Name of the LORD is to know His reputation, His eternal qualities, His divinity and His attributes. He is good. He is faithful. He is just. He is the Father Who knows how to give good gifts to His children. In fact, the more one studies the Bible and studies the character of God, His Name, the more such a Christian will trust Him.

Trust in God is not shaken by circumstances. Helen Roseveare (1925-2016), a medical missionary to the Congo wrote:
     One word became unbelievably clear, and that word was privilege.
     He didn’t take away pain or cruelty or humiliation. No! It was all there,
     but now it was altogether different. It was with him, for him, in him.
     He was actually offering me the inestimable privilege of sharing in
     some little way the edge of the fellowship of his suffering.
    As quoted in the article “Heroes of Faith” Pioneers magazine, Issue 26, page 11

Worry is the negative character trait which raises its ugly head when trust is absent. Worry is questioning and doubting, it nervously looks at every circumstance and becomes increasingly afraid to act. Worry is the pebble that gathers speed going downhill until an avalanche is formed. The very first instance of fear and worry found in the Bible is Genesis 3:10, after Adam and Eve had eaten of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the very thing God forbade them from doing. They were filled with fear, and worry. It was appropriate, that is fear of the LORD. However, sin makes people afraid and anxious and worried of people, circumstances and at events, rather than appropriately directing a holy fear toward the LORD. Such fear directed to the LORD leads to obedient trust in God and the strength to do as He commands, even if the whole world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo you. Whereas worry just leaves one as helpless jelly quivering on the floor.

Trust is the very place where worry has been prayed into submission. Trust is the confidence in God that His Spirit will be greater than the anxiety and agitation which rises up in the believer. Jesus Christ Himself faced the greatest torment and hardest trial ever given to any human when He wrestled in prayer with God in the Garden of Gethsemane. Yet He rose from that time of wrestling in prayer with His Father and was confirmed in His perfect trust.

Father in heaven, holy and great is Your Name. By the powerful presence of Your Spirit in the life of believers, help us to grow in our knowledge of Who You Are and so daily increase our confident trust in You. As such trusting knowledge fills our senses because the radiance of Jesus Christ, in His great Name enable us to go and serve You without anxiety over our circumstances, nor uselessly worried about any other thing. Living for Jesus in the power of the Spirit truly is inestimable privilege. In our hearts, in our homes and in this world, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, be gloried in Your us, Your people. Amen.

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