FAITH CAPSULE: Give self to a lifestyle with the fear of God, trust, and hope in Him.
Proverbs 3
Trusting God is relying on God. Trusting God is not a mouth act but an act from the heart. Many claims to trust God with no understanding of what it means to trust God. It is true that what does not understand will not work. Do you have trust in God? One that is having a lifestyle with no fear of God is not possible to truly trust God. Give self to a lifestyle with the fear of God, trust, and hope in Him. The book of Isaiah 50:10 clearly points it out, “Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon his God.” God cannot be deceived by what we say and not behave. God clearly warned Samuel about the idea of approving man by appearance when Samuel was about to mistake David’s brother for David as the king after Saul. God warned Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7)
In the heart of one with the action of noise about trusting God with no fear for God is not hidden to God. God sees all heart. Are you one with the heart to truly trust in God or you only talk about your trust in God?
The Lord spoke in Jeremiah 17:6, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.” Who do you trust? Ones that are placing their fear in man does not have their trusts in God. Trusting God is not just the word of the mouth. Jeremiah’s verse above pointed it out a curse as the portion for ones that places trust in man.
Just as the word of God declared that curse belongs to ones with no fear and with no trust for God, His word identified that there is a blessing for those that trust in Him. Jeremiah 17:7-8 recorded, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:7-8) God is true at His word. God is not a liar. The word of God does not return void to Him. In your heart, fear God and your trust in God with hope will glaringly flow.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you for a diligent heart.