May 3 Unshakable Position
Trust is simply an unshakable position or stance that we take in the midst of everything we encounter in life….good or bad….things we understand…..and things we don’t understand.
Trust becomes our default when we wake up in the morning and go throughout our day.
St. Augustine: Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.
E.M. Bounds: Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
C.S. Lewis: To trust God means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.
E.M. Bounds: When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to recieve. Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to recieve the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust recieves what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
Mother Teresa: God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.
And the Bible says it best!
Psa. 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.
Psa. 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes.
Prov. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding