Trusting in God

   “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!" Psalm 34:8 NKJV

    From the beginning of time God has asked His people to trust Him; trust in His boundaries, trust in His provisions.

• Noah and his family trusted God enough to prepare the ark and trusted Him when He divinely sealed them into the ark as the flood waters rose around it (Genesis 6:13-8:22, Hebrews 11:7).
•  Abram & Sarai and their nephew Lot trusted God when they left all to go to Canaan (Genesis 12:1-5, Hebrews 11:8). Abram trusted God when He was told to sacrifice his son, Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19, Hebrews 11:17-19)
• Joseph trusted in God when his brothers sold him into slavery (Genesis 37 and 39)
  
• Jochebed trusted God when she placed her 3 month old son in the prepared basket and set him afloat in the river near Pharaoh’s palace (Exodus 1)    
• Moses trusted God when he left Pharaoh’s palace to live with his own people and when God chose him to led His people out of Egyptian bondage and toward the Promised Land (Hebrews 11:24-29, Exodus 14-15)
• Rahab trusted God when she gathered her family into her house and tied the red cord in the window while her city was conquered (Joshua 2 and 6)
• David trusted God when, having to choose between three punishments, he chose the one that would put them into God’s hand because David was confident of God’s mercy (2 Samuel 24:10-16)
• Hezekiah trusted in God when Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, threatened (2 Kings 19)
• Job trusted in God even when his health, livelihood, and children were taken from him in one day (Job 1:1-2:10)
• Ezekiel trusted even his wife died and he could not openly mourn his loss (Ezekiel 24:15-27)
• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego trusted God when they were put into the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:8-30) and Daniel trusted God when he was lowered into the lion’s den (Daniel 6:1-28)
• Jonah trusted God when he told the sailors to throw him overboard into the raging sea (Jonah 1-2)
• Habakkuk trusted in God, come what may (Habakkuk 3:17-18)
• Simeon trusted God that he would see Jesus, the Consolation of Israel, in his lifetime (Luke 2:25-35)
• Peter trusted God when he stepped out of the fishing boat into the wave-tossed sea (Matthew 14:22-30)
• Jesus trusted God to be the Righteous Judge, knowing all that Jesus endured (1 Peter 2:22-23)
• Saul/Paul trusted God when his sins were forgiven him, but he let the remembrance of them spur him on to obedience (Acts 9:1-22, 1 Timothy 1:12-17)

    This is a small list, but gives us a good cross-section of people who have trusted God (read Hebrews 11 for another listing, read the whole Bible for the best list of all!) We are thankful that these are recorded for us, to encourage us to keep pressing forward, to help us exchange our fears for faith, so that our faith can flourish!

    If the highlights of your life were recorded what would be said about you? How would this statement be finished?

“I trusted God when _________________________________________________________”