October 11, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
WHY OUR TRUST IN GOD IS SO UNSTABLE
“Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shall thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” Ps. 37: 3, KJV.
“‘Trust in the Lord.’ Each day has its burdens, it’s cares, and perplexities: and when we meet, how ready we are to talk of our difficulties and trials.”
Where do many of these trials come from? “So many BORROWED troubles intrude, so many fears are INDULGED, such a weight of anxiety is expressed, that one might almost suppose that we had NO pitying, loving Savior, ready to hear all our requests, and be to us a ‘present help in every time of need.
“Some are always fearing and borrowing trouble. Everyday they are surrounded with the tokens of God’s love, every day they are enjoying the bounties of His providence, but they OVERLOOK this present blessings. Their minds are continually dwelling upon something DISAGREEABLE which they fear may come of some difficulty may really exist, which, though SMALL, blinds their eyes to the many things which demand GRATITUDE.
“The difficulties, which they encounter, instead of driving them to God, the only source of help, SEPARATE them from Him, because they awaken unrest and repining.
“Brethren and sisters, do we well to be thus UNBELIEVING? Why should we be UNGRATEFUL and DISTRUSTFUL? Jesus is our Friend. All heaven is interested in our welfare: and our anxiety and fear GRIEVE the Holy Spirit of God!
“We should not indulge in a solicitude which only frets and wears us, but does not help us bear trials.
“No place should be given to that distrust of God which leads us to make a PREPARATION against future want, the CHIEF pursuit of life, as though our HAPPINESS consisted in these EARTHLY things, and we could gain them while IGNORING the fact that God controls all things.” – E.G. White, This Day with God, p. 42.
How often Christians grieve the Holy Spirit, not by doing wicked things or being “trouble-makers” but by being “trouble-borrowers.” To make things even worse, they allow the trials resulting from their choices to separate them from God instead of driving them to Him, the only Source of help! That’s self-inflicted double jeopardy.
Indeed “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.” God help us all, NMF.