Prayer
– Lord, I want to give You my best! I trust You to guide and correct me—Yes,
even to correct me, because I want healing for my body…physical and spiritual.
I want to honor You in all that I think, say, and do. You are worthy of my love
and adoration. I trust in You with all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Go ahead and correct me—I need it.
Trust
in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek
his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Don't be
impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones. Honor the
LORD with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he
will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine. My
child, don't reject the LORD's discipline, and don't be upset when he corrects
you. For the LORD corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in
whom he delights. Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains
understanding. Proverbs
3:5-13
Meditate.
Consider trust.
There
are over one hundred verses that include “trust” and the “Lord” in the New
Living Translation of the Bible. That is a lot of trust. That can bring Him a
lot of glory. So, what does it mean to “trust” in the Lord? To rely on Him…to
have confidence in Him…or to be confident in Him…and to feel safe. God can be
trusted—we are safe in His protection, even when He is correcting us or
disciplining us. Think about how a child reacts to correction. They hang their
head, knowing that they’ve done wrong. That’s just how we look to God when He
corrects us. But stand up and take your correction to heart. God wants the best
for you…and from you. He expects the best. Give it to Him. Isaiah says it well
when he writes that our heart’s desire is to glorify God’s name.
Trust in the LORD always, for the LORD GOD is the
eternal Rock. He humbles the proud and brings down the arrogant city. He brings
it down to the dust. The poor and oppressed trample it underfoot, and the needy
walk all over it. But for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and
rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead
of them. LORD, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws;
our heart's desire is to glorify your name. Isaiah 26:4-8 (Underlined for
emphasis.)
What path will you follow...
if your feet are not even headed in the same direction?
Trust in the Lord.
Let Him show you the right path.
Towards
the end of the New Testament God has once again given us some wonderful
promises.
So do not throw away this
confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings
you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do
God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. "For in just a
little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. And my righteous ones
will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away."
But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We
are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved. Hebrews 10:35-39
Don’t
turn away from God. Good advice in the coming days when trials may make us
discouraged and if we aren’t careful, we may blame God for those very trials
and think that is punishment. Is it? Consider what Jesus Christ endured on the
cross for you.
We have to decide for ourselves. We
have choices to make every day. Choose whom you will serve day by day. As you
choose to serve God, you make an eternal choice that is pleasing God and honors
Him. Just like Joshua as he was leading the Israelites into the Promised Land,
I choose to serve God. I trust in the Lord with all my heart. He is the best of
the best—worthy of the best that I have, give, and do.
Verse
of Salvation ~ (Some of Abraham’s last words spoken to his sons.) I trust in
you for salvation, O LORD! Genesis
49:18
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