Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
YOUR TRUST WILL BE CHALLENGED
We are encouraging each other to trust the Lord. It’s sure easy to trust the Lord when everything is going fine, isn’t it? But what about when our world is turned upside down? When we face challenges that we have no way of fixing ourselves? When there is no light at the end of the tunnel? When we face a world lockdown which is being used to control people’s lives?
Let’s look at four examples in God’s Word. There are loads more— could share incidences from nearly every Bible character. I’ll share two today and two tomorrow.
JOB
Job was a very blessed man with 10 children and lived a blessed life (Proverbs 29). He also owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 oxen, and 500 asses and in one day he lost the lot! Yes, every one of his precious children. How would we survive such heartache? But what was his confession?
Job 13:15: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”
We reveal how much we trust God we wonder how we can trust Him. It reminds me of the lines . . .
Trust Him when dark days assail thee,
Trust Him when thy faith is small,
Trust Him when to simply trust Him
Is the hardest thing of all.
HEZEKIAH
Read this story about Hezekiah in 2 Kings, chapters 18 and 19. 2 Kings 18:5, 6 says that Hezekiah “TRUSTED in the LORD God of Israel . . . he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments.”
However, although Hezekiah was faithful to God and trusted Him, he faced a big challenge. Sennacherib, King of Assyria planned to take Jerusalem. Firslty, he sent his Chief of Staff to taunt the people and to put doubt and fear in them about trusting in their God. Then he sent a personal message to Hezekiah: “Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered in the hand of the king of Assyria . . . ” (2 Kings 19:10-19).
What did Hezekiah do? He spread the letter before the Lord and prayed earnestly. When the king of Assyria came to conquer Jerusalem, the night before the angel of the Lord smote 185,000 of the enemy soldiers in the camp. In the morning, they were all dead corpses (2 Kings 19:35). God delivered Hezekiah because he trusted in Him.
We all trust in something. The question is: who do we trust? Do we trust God, no matter what? Or would we rather trust in man’s solutions. Man-made predictions. Media-hype fear mongering. I am amazed how many people would rather trust a corrupt government than God, the mighty Creator of the universe, the God of signs and wonders and miracles, the God who is our Savior and Deliverer!
Psalm 18:31: “For who is God save the LORD? Or who is a rock save our God? Is there anyone or anything that is more worthy to be trusted than God?
Let’s be the people of God who truly trust Him.
Nancy Campbell
