Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Trusting God”
Our Bible verse for today: “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” Psalm 16:6 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “Be sure to put your trust in God during the good times as well as in the bad times.”
As I write this it is the day after Thanksgiving 2013. As you probably did too, yesterday I spent some quiet time with the Lord thinking about how much He has blessed me. I have a wonderful wife, four great kids, a comfortable home, reliable vehicles, and I live in the greatest country in the world enjoying the highest standard of living that any middle class of people have ever had. Additionally, I love my job. I get to spend my days as the Pastor of a great church and as the Vice-President of a humanitarian relief agency. Both of those professions are richly rewarding and deeply satisfying. You can probably make similar statements about your own life.
In Psalm 16:6 King David was musing about such things and he concluded that the boundaries lines of his life, as established by God, had fallen in pleasant places. In other words God has blessed him, he knew it, and he was grateful for it. I can relate to what David was feeling. I feel the same way about my life and you probably do about yours too.
However, as author Jerry Bridges observed in his book “Trusting God Even When Life Hurts”, “As hard as it is to trust God in times of adversity, there are other times when it may be even harder, and that is when our circumstances are going well … At such times, we’re prone to put our trust in our blessings or, even worse, in ourselves as the providers of those blessings.”
When times are tough it’s typical for us to cry out to God for help and to affirm our trust in Him for relief. But when times are good we often forget that it’s God who blesses us with all those good things. It’s a sad truth that we focus more on trusting God during the bad times than during the good times.
By all means place your trust in Him for help in the times of adversity, but don’t forget to trust Him when times are good too.
God Bless, Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 