Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NIV)
7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose
confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that
sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves
are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to
bear fruit.”
The duty required of us-to trust in the Lord, to do our
duty to him and then depend upon him to bear us out in doing it-when creatures
and second causes either deceive or threaten us, either are false to us or
fierce against us, to commit ourselves to God as all-sufficient both to fill up
the place of those who fail us and to protect us from those who set upon us. It
is to make the Lord our hope, his favour the good we hope for and his power the
strength we hope in. [Matthew Henry Commentary]
There is nothing, no
circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of
all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come
that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the
moment, but as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to him and
accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing
to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no trial will ever disarm me,
no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my
Lord is.
[Pastor and author Alan Redpath (1907–1988)]
Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose
confidence is in him. AMEN.
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