The word trust in reference to God appears so many times in the Bible, in Charles Bridges commentary I found what he had to say as regards trusting in God. Proverbs 16 v20 we read, 'And whoso trusteth in the Lord,happy is he'. 'God the object of trust'. This is our peaceful security in all things'- Luther said- 'in my hands,and I have lost them all. But whatever I have been able to place in God's, I still possess.' In this quite confidence we have nothing more to do with ourselves. A thousand perplexing thoughts are scattered to the winds. God now takes the place once filled by my unquiet agitations. The soul is fixed in God. He reigns over all with an unseeing eye, and an all moving hand.' He mentions in relation to the promises of God ,'that all the world cannot rob us of one word of God.There is more reality in the least promise of God, than in the greatest performance of man. I will therefore ever trust Him on His bare word; with hope, beside hope,above hope, against hope,for the small matters of life.Never did God intend to create our happiness out of our own resources.To feel that we know nothing,that we can do nothing , contrive nothing; then to look up to Him as our supreme Good, and to trust Him as our only Friend - when was such reliance and expectation ever disappointed?.
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