5 REASONS WE OUGHT TO TRUST GOD

Proverbs 3:5-6

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; ⁶In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Isaiah 26:3-4

³ You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in you. ⁴ Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.

I.                   HE’S GOD (SOVEREIGN)

God is free and able to do all that he wills; He reigns over all creation and His will is the final cause of all things.

1.   He does what He wants to do.

Psalm 135:6

Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth,In the seas and in all deep places.

                   Psalm 115:13

³But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

Daniel 4:35

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

2.   God cannot successfully be opposed.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

¹³ Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Isaiah 43:13

¹³ Indeed before the day was, I am He; and there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?”

  

3.   He is in control of World History.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

Psalm 22:28

²⁸ For the kingdom is the Lord’s: And he is the governor among the nations.

Jeremiah 18:7-10

⁷ At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; ⁸ If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. ⁹ And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; ¹⁰ If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

4.   He has power over all gods and demonic forces.

Psalms 95:3

³ For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods.

Exodus 18:11

¹¹ Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.”

II.           HE IS GOOD.

The benevolent nature and character of God referring to His acts of mercy, pity, compassion, long suffering, patience and justice.

1.   Demonstrated by His Actions.

Psalm 119:68

⁶⁸ You are good, and do good; Teach me Your statutes.

2.   His Goodness extends to all of Creation.

Psalm 145:9

⁹ The Lord is good to all: And his tender mercies are over all his works.

3.   He’s Especially Good to those who trust Him.

Psalm 34:8

⁸ O taste and see that the Lord is good: Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

4.   He Boasts in His Goodness.

Exodus 34:5

⁵ And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

III.          HE IS PRECISE.

1.   He Orders our Steps.

Psalm 37:23

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: And he delighteth in his way.

2.   He limits our temptations.

1 Corinthians 10:13

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

3.   He keeps us.

Psalm 91:11-12

¹¹ For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. ¹² In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

4.   He Faithfully Keeps Seed Time and Harvest.

Galatians 6:7-8

⁷ Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸ For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

IV.          HE IS ETERNAL.

Genesis 21:33

³³ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God (Olam El).

Even the translation, “Everlasting God,” is not quite enough to describe the full meaning of Olam El. The El portion of the name means strong, mighty, or powerful. But Olam is much more challenging to define; its meaning is greater than simply “as far as possible into the future.” Olam actually extends both directions in time. It is forward and backward— forever!

The concept of Olam is not confined to a timeline, and neither is God; the Everlasting God exists outside of time. If you were to go back to the very beginning of time, He was before that. Olam El defies definition!

The way humankind thinks about time forces us to consider a start and a finish. Olam El, however, knows no beginning or end. When time as we know it comes to a close, the Ancient of Days will continue. He sees the past, present, and future—all at once. Obviously, this enables Him to have a unique perspective, seeing the results of an action long before it happens (for example, Adam’s fall and the consequential need of the cross); it also gives God the unique ability to deal with the ramifications of events that occurred in the past, erasing their consequences as though the events never took place. For example, God doesn’t see a born-again, former prostitute as “a former prostitute;” He doesn’t see the redeemed murderer as “a former murderer.” God separates our sins from us “as far as the east is from the west,” (Psalm 103:12) and remembers them no more (Hebrews 8:12, 10:17).

Isaiah 46:10

⁹ Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰ Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure.

V.          HE IS UNWAVERINGLY COMMITTED TO YOU.

1.   He can’t be taken away from you.

Romans 8:35-39

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2.   He will never leave you.

Hebrews 13:5

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

3.   His Mercy is consistently renewed.

Lamentations 3:22-23

²² It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ²³ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.