Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Trusting God”
Our Bible verse for today: “Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him, and He will help you.” Psalm 37:5 (NLT)
Our thought for today: “The definition of trust is actually a great description of God.”
The dictionary defines “trust” as, “Firm reliance on the integrity or ability of a person or thing.” Synonyms for trust include, “confidence, faith, certitude, certainty, belief, conviction, assurance, security, credibility, and trustworthiness.”
Those words define who God is. Nobody has more integrity than God. And ability? He is all-powerful, He created everything there is. Therefore we can have absolute confidence in Him; our faith in Him can be strong and certain; we can trust Him with conviction and assurance; because He is credible. When we think that deeply about what trust is, and we apply that understand to what we know to be true about God, we realize why He is so completely and totally trustworthy.
Therefore Psalm 37:5 encourages us to entrust everything to Him because when we do, He will help us. That’s one of the most common storylines in the Bible. Trust God, commit your ways to Him, seek His will rather than your own, and He will help you.
To help us gain an even fuller understanding of the concept of truly trusting, Rodale’s Synonym Finder offers this insight regarding what the act of trusting produces, “hope, hopefulness, optimism, expectation, and anticipation.”
We, the people of God, know this to be true from experience. When we truly trust God we discover that the black cloud of despair, uncertainty, and doubt is lifted and in its place we have hope, optimism, expectation, and a great sense of anticipation that good things are coming our way.
“Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him, and He will help you.”
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 