The Spirit knew exactly where to lead me for my devotion
today… isn’t it “funny” when that just
happens like that? Well I don’t believe for
one second that things just happen by random chance, do you? God is God for a reason, and just when you
think God isn’t, GOD IS! I am in one of
David’s Psalms this morning for a reason, because God knew I needed to be
there. Psalm 25 is one a plea and prayer from the mouth of David, the man after
God’s own heart. How amazing it is that
you and I can share, too, in this amazing Psalm. Sometimes Trust can be an issue for me in
life, any Amen’s on that? I don’t have
the lack of trust in the fact that Jesus has saved and claimed me, but on “day
to day” things, well let’s just say I am not quite as trusting in God. Let’s listen for a moment at some of the word
David used. “Remember your mercy, o Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have
been from old” (v. 6). I must trust
in the Lord’s plans for my life… even when I can’t quite see how they will work
out. There are many days that I just can’t
see what those plans are or how this could ever be a part of God’s plans for my
life, but I must trust. I must recall
Jeremiah’s words from Jeremiah 29:11, “For
I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not
for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” You see God sees the end from
the beginning. He has told me “that for those who love God all things work
together for good”. I just MUST add
that trust to my spiritual armor. David
goes on, “O God, in You I trust” (v. 2). There
is a quote by David Lane that this passage and the topic of trust bring to
mind. “If God is for us, Jesus is with
us and the Holy Spirit is in us, then why do we let the things around us to
overcome us?” There are so many days, I think,
that you and I forget what great power we as Christians, followers of Jesus
Christ, have. There are those days when
we can’t see what those plans “exactly are, but I always know the direction The
Spirit is leading me. I just need to
remember that He is waiting on me at the end of my times of temporary uncertainty
or trial. If I just look … If we will
just look we will see God at the end of that tunnel. God sees the end from the beginning, and we
must have ruthless trust, as Brennan Manning so aptly puts it. My uncertainties and trials in this life may
be God’s blessings in disguise. Laura
Story, a contemporary Christian musical artist, expresses so well in her song, “Blessings”. We must all remember through uncertainty, or
trial, that God hears and God Cares. “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your
tears. Behold, I will heal you.” (2 Kings 20:5). We must remember “who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works
but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus
before the ages began” (2 Timothy 1:9).
My prayer is for ruthless trust. I hope it is yours as well!
God Bless!
