Who Do You Trust?

Beth Moore on James Robinson/Life Today

Beth: I want you to hear a verse that I think about so often. You can turn to it if you want to, or you can stay right there in Isaiah. It’s Psalm 112:7. I’ve said it so many times that I think I misunderstood the heart of it, and God’s beginning to teach me. It’s talking about the man who fears the Lord and finds great delight in His commands. That’s what it says in verse one. Verse seven says this: He will have no fear of bad news. His heart is—does anybody see what that word is right there? Steadfast! His heart is steadfast.
Do you remember the steadfast heart and the steadfast mind? He will have no fear of bad news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. His heart is secure; he will have no fear. In the end he will look and triumph upon his foes.
Look at what that’s saying. It’s not saying he won’t have fear of bad news because there will never be any. That’s what I thought. That’s what I want it to say. Does God ever not say what you really want Him to say? We will just provoke our own will and our own desire on a scripture. We just press it on it, and make it say-- we’ll interpret it to say what we hope it does. And what I want that to say is that I never need fear any bad news because I’m never going to get any.
Things happen. Deep hurts happen. If you and I are going to walk in this trust thing, we’ve got to get down in under all those conditional elements until we can say this, I just trust you. I don’t trust you to dot, dot, dot, like I tell you to dot, dot, dot. I don’t trust you to do what I tell you to do, in Jesus name. I’m going to choose to just trust you! That if my worst nightmare happened—you’ve got to have some purpose! There must have been huge glory at stake!
But we’ve got to know down in the depths of our hearts that God will take care of us, and He must be about a huge work of glory. Much ministry! Much purpose!
Boy, I’ve said this before, and I’ll just want to share it with you again, God’s purpose in your life is not to make everything easy. Our lives are meant to have meaning, they’re meant to mean something here. They’re meant to minister to people. I thought so many times that if you and I had the lives we keep asking God for, they would be so boring, if somebody was reading them in a book they would put them to sleep! Isn’t it the truth?
This place is a place of drama. I guess you can imagine I’ve been called a drama queen more times than a few. But you know what I think every single time? I’ve got a drama king. I’ve got a drama king! Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama. It’s real, and it hurts, and it soars, and it sores… life on planet earth. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him? Get to the other side. How the psalmist said, I will not fear. I will trust God! What can man do to me? What can man do to me? What can you do that’s for keeps? I want this to heal in my life. I’m tired of it.
Are you tired of it? I’m tired of it. Tired of the enemy messing with me over the same area, over and over and over again! I’m tired of it! So what are we going to do?
Let me tell you something that happens to us, while you’re heading to 2 Timothy. I’ll tell you another verse that God has been speaking to me about trust. The psalmist had so many struggles that we can relate to. It says over and over again in Psalm 115, “Oh house of Israel, trust in the Lord. He is their help and shield. Oh house of Aaron, trust in the Lord. He is their help and shield. You who fear and trust in the Lord, He is their help and shield.” And I began to realize that when we do not trust God, even though he is still our help and shield, what we have done is aggravate the cycle by reaffirming our lack of faith, because we disconnect ourselves from the since of God’s help, of His ever present help in times of trouble. And we lower our shield.
The Word of God in Ephesians, chapter 6 calls this the shield of faith. That calls faith a shield, when I drop my shield which is what I do when I disbelieve God every fiery dart of the enemy is hitting me straight in the target of my weakness.
I want you to understand something, and I want you to see it over and over and over again. When you think of that area in your life where you are so tempted to distrust God, you have confidence that not for a single second is he forgetting what is dear to you. Not for a second!
I want to say something to you as we close. This is what occurred to me recently, and it just floored me. It came to me as such a profound truth. I jotted it down as I felt like the Lord spoke it over my heart, the very area where you are most tempted to distrust God is the very place He has most chosen to trust you. Think about it carefully.
Did you get a “no” to something you desperately wanted a “yes” to? He knew, He was going to bring something profound out of that, something with huge ramifications. Something that matters, not just in this generation, but in the next, and in the next, and in the next! Because ours is a god of lineage! You know that. You know that!
It’s a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. Maybe, all along, what He was saying was this, I knew you could. I know what’s in you. I know what’s in you, because I am in you, and I am your all surpassing power in a jar of clay. Watch me show off, from the inside out! Yes, even if what you fear most should happen! No more cards for him to play! Repeat after me, I trust God…
Say it again, I trust God. Not just to do what I tell him to. I trust God.