“And those
who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O
Lord, have not forsaken those who
seek you.”
~Psalm 9:10 (NRSV)
“We would
fear people less if we feared God more, and we would tremble less before our
enemies if we trusted our Saviour more.”
~W. Graham Scroggie
It seems we can boil down the
living of the faith-life to the simplicity of trust—a paradoxically hard thing
to execute. Trust-in-God is just an idea unless it is expressed in surrender. It
finds its scope for bearing via pragmatism: surrender is the form of obedience
that demonstrates such trust-in-God.
Those who know the Lord’s name—the Divine character and
commands—will trust their God. And their trust will be known by surrender. That
surrender is given as a gift of faith in their Lord;
the One who has not forsaken them. For, why would we trust God if we believed
that God could let us down?
Converting An Idea Into A Reality
Again, we build from the idea of
trust unto the reality of surrender. Our faith means close to nothing if we
cannot surrender, willingly, enthusiastically, spontaneously.
Yet it’s the emergent wisdom of
those who know their God, to trust sufficiently in order to discern the
deception of the evil one. Satan tries his ploys to unbalance us in the area of
trust. With our trust, we are to enlist wisdom to gauge the Presence of God in
the moment of our trust.
And when we know when and how to
trust God, we convert that idea of trusting into the reality of surrendering.
Those that trust in God have the habit of living their faith in action-oriented
ways. This is an everyday trust and surrender.
Trusting God Is The Ideal Protection
Why do we trust God unto the
surrender of faith?
We might know that living
faithfully is the idea of the theological triple-horn famed in Proverbs:
righteousness, justice, and fairness. We know it as God’s design for living. We
trust God and obey because we know it is God’s will that we do.
But there is a more practical
reason why we can be convinced that it is best for us to trust and obey. It’s
because the more we trust and obey God, the less we will be harangued by the
world. The more we surrender to God, the less we surrender to the fear
propagated by our world. The more we focus on God, the less we worry about our
enemies.
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Trust leads to surrender, but it
depends on what we trust in as to the worth of our surrender. Trusting in the Lord, which leads to our pragmatic
surrender, is the greatest favour of investment for our future that we could achieve
for ourselves. In faith, we shall see.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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