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Prayer
Heavenly Father, I praise you and I thank you for a new day of life. Lord I pray that you would meet with me once again today to strengthen and feed me from your word. Without you, Lord, I will perish body and soul. I live only by the word that proceeds out of your mouth, and so I pray – please feed me from your word O Lord. Nourish and strengthen my soul, please give me wisdom according to my need for the day. My hope is in you, and my help is in you. Please extend your kingly rule in my heart today, and subdue my passions unto your will. Please renew my mind, and reveal to me your will – and so work in me to will and to do that which you desire. I ask these things in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Reading
Proverbs 1:7.
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge...”
Meditation
A third aspect of fearing the Lord is that we should trust in him. In Proverbs 3:5-7 we read: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.” If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and wisdom trusts God (Pr 3:5), then trusting God is certainly an aspect of fearing him. We see the link here between trusting God and fearing God even more clearly in Psalm 115:11, which says: “You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.”
What does it mean to trust in God? First, it means to believe in his word. God is the source of all wisdom, and he gives us that wisdom through his word by his Spirit, as the psalmist says: “Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.” So also in 2 Timothy 3:15, where Paul says to Timothy: “from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” Trusting God means firstly that we trust in his word.
Be ye doers of the word…
There is much that could be said to expand this theme, and doubtless there will be opportunity as our studies in Proverbs unfold. But we might at least touch upon the heartbeat of what it means to trust in God. Here is what I think to be the preeminent application when it comes to trusting the Lord: trust God for your salvation. A central aspect of trusting God is that it is exercised in the reception of salvation and life. Again, revisiting 2 Timothy 3:15 we read: “from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” The scriptures make us wise – unto salvation. To trust in God is to believe God unto salvation. It is to confess our sin to God, to ask for his forgiveness, and to believe him when he promises not to hold our sins against us any more. Those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, will be saved, but those who do not believe are condemned already.
Furthermore, do not trust yourself. Proverbs 28:26 says: “Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.” Lean not on your own understanding. Wisdom learns to constantly question our own judgment, and instead to constantly seek to understand and trust in God’s judgment as revealed in his word. Christians should have an unquestionable loyalty to the word of God – no matter what the cost. SDG.
Prayer of Confession & Consecration
Lord I thank you that you are all together trustworthy. Please forgive me for the times when I have not trusted you out of my own fear, or when I have trusted myself out of a misplaced arrogance and pride in my own judgment. Please help me, Lord, to trust you in all things and in every way. I thank you that you are the God of my salvation. I trust you, Lord. Please help me to grow in my trust in you, that my heart be fully fixed in perfect peace as I look to you to supply all my needs, and as I look to your word for all my direction and guidance. All praise be to you, my Lord and my God, faithful and true, altogether trustworthy. Praise be to you O Lord. I commit my way into your hands this day, please go before me and direct me, protect me, guide me, and fill me with your wisdom. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
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Heavenly Father, I praise you and I thank you for a new day of life. Lord I pray that you would meet with me once again today to strengthen and feed me from your word. Without you, Lord, I will perish body and soul. I live only by the word that proceeds out of your mouth, and so I pray – please feed me from your word O Lord. Nourish and strengthen my soul, please give me wisdom according to my need for the day. My hope is in you, and my help is in you. Please extend your kingly rule in my heart today, and subdue my passions unto your will. Please renew my mind, and reveal to me your will – and so work in me to will and to do that which you desire. I ask these things in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Reading
Proverbs 1:7.
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge...”
Meditation
A third aspect of fearing the Lord is that we should trust in him. In Proverbs 3:5-7 we read: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.” If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and wisdom trusts God (Pr 3:5), then trusting God is certainly an aspect of fearing him. We see the link here between trusting God and fearing God even more clearly in Psalm 115:11, which says: “You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.”
What does it mean to trust in God? First, it means to believe in his word. God is the source of all wisdom, and he gives us that wisdom through his word by his Spirit, as the psalmist says: “Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.” So also in 2 Timothy 3:15, where Paul says to Timothy: “from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” Trusting God means firstly that we trust in his word.
Be ye doers of the word…
There is much that could be said to expand this theme, and doubtless there will be opportunity as our studies in Proverbs unfold. But we might at least touch upon the heartbeat of what it means to trust in God. Here is what I think to be the preeminent application when it comes to trusting the Lord: trust God for your salvation. A central aspect of trusting God is that it is exercised in the reception of salvation and life. Again, revisiting 2 Timothy 3:15 we read: “from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” The scriptures make us wise – unto salvation. To trust in God is to believe God unto salvation. It is to confess our sin to God, to ask for his forgiveness, and to believe him when he promises not to hold our sins against us any more. Those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, will be saved, but those who do not believe are condemned already.
Furthermore, do not trust yourself. Proverbs 28:26 says: “Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.” Lean not on your own understanding. Wisdom learns to constantly question our own judgment, and instead to constantly seek to understand and trust in God’s judgment as revealed in his word. Christians should have an unquestionable loyalty to the word of God – no matter what the cost. SDG.
Prayer of Confession & Consecration
Lord I thank you that you are all together trustworthy. Please forgive me for the times when I have not trusted you out of my own fear, or when I have trusted myself out of a misplaced arrogance and pride in my own judgment. Please help me, Lord, to trust you in all things and in every way. I thank you that you are the God of my salvation. I trust you, Lord. Please help me to grow in my trust in you, that my heart be fully fixed in perfect peace as I look to you to supply all my needs, and as I look to your word for all my direction and guidance. All praise be to you, my Lord and my God, faithful and true, altogether trustworthy. Praise be to you O Lord. I commit my way into your hands this day, please go before me and direct me, protect me, guide me, and fill me with your wisdom. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
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