How to Trust God

Or, Our Necessities Are Merely Opportunities to Trust God

"How excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings" (Psalm 36:7).

by Tom Stewart

Preface

God alone is worthy of our trust. "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? " (Numbers 23:19). If you question the LORD's worthiness of your confidence and trust, then you are simply not putting your "trust under the shadow of [His] wings" (Psalm 36:7). The excellency of knowing and trusting Jesus Christ is worth the "loss of all things" (Philippians 3:8) to the True Christian. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ" (3:8).

The True Believer does not ask why he should trust God; instead, he asks, "How can I trust God more fully?" The Apostle Paul understood that his faith was strengthened, when he approached his divinely allowed "necessities" as being for "Christ's sake" (2Corinthians 12:10). "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong" (12:10). This indicates that Paul knew that his necessities were actually opportunities to trust God.