It’s Friday…Live Recklessly

Those of us who claim a relationship with God have placed our trust in Him. But when it comes to daily living, we tend to trust a lot of other sources of help as well. Few of us have learned to trust The Lord alone. We usually trust The Lord and financial resources, medical research, counselor’s advice, popular opinion, and any number of other avenues of assistance. Now, none of these in themselves are necessarily false helps. The issue is our heart attitude of trust. Do we know in our hearts where our help really comes from? It comes from God.

“Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust.” (Psalm 40:4)

David claims that the person who makes the Lord his trust will be “blessed” – utterly happy, spiritually prosperous, envied and honored. God’s “shalom” – His peace and wellness – will be upon him. The picture is of someone who has forsaken all confidence in other things and cast himself without reservation – even Recklessly – on God. It is a naked faith, with no human props to fall back on. It is a spiritual placing of all eggs in one basket.

This kind of trust requires a certain amount of courage. It hangs everything on the invisible God. It does not hedge its bets, but believes that God, as He revealed in His Word, will act toward us as we have been told He will. But in the end, it is the safest trust there is. God has never failed anyone who has invested all hopes in Him.

So, how pure is our trust? Are we using God to fill in the gaps around our other sources of help? Do we have a Plan B if God doesn’t intervene the way we want Him to? If so, let’s not expect the blessedness of being abandoned to Him. That only comes with a pure, unbridled faith in God alone. No false idols, no confidence in the flesh, no backup plan, no pride. Let’s make The Lord our exclusive trust, and let’s expect to be blessed.

Have a faith-filled weekend. Make it better by worshiping The LORD with those who live with blind trust in Him because they have learned He sees what is best for them before they do. And they rest secure in Him.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)