WE TRUST IN THE LORD OUR GOD.

 

APRIL 26

We trust in the Lord our God:
Isaiah 36:7

 

HAPPY is the man that can honestly say this.
 
He is taught by the Holy Spirit.
He has learnt to know God.
He puts his knowledge to a practical account.
He is safe from fear of evil.
 
The Lord has revealed himself as the sole object of trust.
 
He has given us such a revelation
  as is calculated to awaken confidence.
His promises are the warrant of our trust.
We may safely trust him to do all
  he has said he will do, and
  to give all he has promised to bestow.
 
But it is not easy to trust an invisible object,
  especially in deep trials and under sore temptations.
 
Satan will do all he can to prevent our trusting him,
  and to shake our confidence in him.
He will throw doubts upon our evidences,
  question our title to the promises and
   suggest that it is presumption to trust a naked promise,
  or rely on the Lord in the absence of warm
    and comfortable feelings.
 
Providence will be sure to put our trust to the test,
  and we generally find, in the hour of trial,
  that our confidence is much more feeble,
  and more easily shaken, that we had supposed.
 
If we would trust in the Lord with all our heart,
  we must get a thorough knowledge
   of his covenant and character.
 
 

Sufficient ground the promise yields,

On which a worm may rest his hope;

And he who on the promise builds,

May give his confidence full scope.

 
James Smith 1849