Proverbs 3:5-6 We sang a song in our worship today, "Some may trust in horses, some may trust in chariots, but we will trust in the name of our God." (based on Psalm 20:7) The persons or things in which we put our trust makes all the difference in the world. It is the difference between success and failure, the difference between life and death, and very possibly between heaven and hell. Trust in the biblical sense means to be confident, secure, sure, put one's confidence, hope, trust in. To totally rely on God. Isaiah 30:15 was God's word to Israel in their decline as they were moving farther and farther away from God, "This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. - Repentance is the true starting point. If we truly repent, we get out of the driver's seat of our lives and let God take His rightful place. Have you seen, or have you been one who could not handle setting beside someone who was driving the car - just couldn't relax if your life depended on it? Do we have the same kind of difficulty relaxing (resting) when we are not in the driver's seat of our lives? It is in repentance and rest that we find our salvation. The really tight parallel to that is that our strength is found in quietness and trust. We need to trust in and rely upon the fact that He is who He says He is, we are who He says we are and that He will do what He says He will do. Because if He isn't, we aren't, and He won't; then there is no way possible that we can succeed in our own strength. That is exactly why Israel never entered into their rest (see Hebrews chapter 3 esp. Verse 19). Psalm 56:3-4 "When I am afraid, I will TRUST in you. [4] In God, whose word I praise, in God I TRUST; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?" Think of it, when I'm afraid, I trust God, I even praise His Word, and I make a decision - "I WILL NOT BE AFRAID!" there is really nothing that mortal man can do to me. It's not, "I hope that God will take care of me." I know He will and in that knowing, I really don't need to give the possibility of failure even a moment's thought." "Perfect love casts out all fear." I John 4:18.

Who Are You Trusting In?