Are you a trusting type of person? Or are you the type who does not trust anyone until they earn it? How does that affect your ability to trust God? Do you trust him to protect you? Do you trust him to grant you peace? Do you trust him to provide you with what you need?
Trust can be hard to give and hard to earn. Some people trust everyone until they break that trust. Others don’t trust anyone until they earn it. Depending on the type of person we are dealing with, trust may be very difficult to earn from them.
However, from the other side of it, if you are the person who does not easily trust, you may find it difficult to trust God. After all, we cannot physically see him. We often are oblivious to him working in the world. We chalk up our successes to our own hard work. We believe the skills we have are ones we have developed ourselves. We quickly see the faults in others and, therefore, apply the possibility of faults to God as well.
Because we do not trust others, we often don’t trust God. Our lack of attributing our successes to him contributes to our distrust of him. Yet we are told throughout Scripture that it is God who provides us with protection, provision, and peace. If we take time to think through it, dig to the bottom of it, we find that Scripture is correct. God is our protector and provider, because of that we have peace.
The Psalmist describes protection as the strengthening of the city gates. He describes provision as being providing with the finest wheat. He equates peace with other nations as peace within. It only when we open our eyes, see more than the moment, and reflect over our lifetimes that we can see how God has worked all around us. Once we see that, we then can trust that he will continue to work in our lives.
I pray we all seek to see how God is working in our lives. I pray we recognize the ways in which he has provided for us. I pray each one of us will trust God to be our protector, provider, and receive his peace. God is working in your life. God provides for you. God is your protector. Receive God’s peace.
Psalm 147:13-14
For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
he blesses your children within you.
He grants peace within your borders;
he fills you with the finest of wheat.
Marty Pressey 