In prayerfully considering how to start off September, I thought a little encouragement regarding trusting in God would serve us all well. If you are a regular reader, you know that I often quote Charles Spurgeon who is one of my all-time favorite teachers. I generally read through his Morning and Evening devotional and found his September 1st devotional really ministered to me. I pray it will do the same for you. By the way, if you do not have this devotional, I highly recommend it. My version is based on the King James Version of the Bible, “Trust in Him at all times” Psalm 62:8.
Faith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life; we ought to have faith in God for our earthly affairs as well as for our heavenly business. It is only as we learn to trust in God for the supply of all our daily need that we shall live above the world. We are not to be idle, that would show we did not trust in God, who worketh hiteherto, but in the devil who is the father of idleness. We are not to be imprudent or rash; that were to trust chance, and not the living God, who is a God of economy and order. Acting in all prudence and uprightness, we are to rely simply and entirely upon the Lord at all times.
Let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things. Trusting in God, you will not be compelled to mourn because you have used sinful means to grow rich. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. Trusting God, you will not be guilty of self-contradiction. He who trusts in craft, sails this way to-day, and that way the next, like a vessel tossed about by the fickle wind; but he that trusteth in the Lord is like a vessel propelled by steam, she cuts through the waves, defies the wind, and makes one bright silvery straightforward track to her destined haven.
Be you a man with living principles within; never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom. Walk in your path of integrity with steadfast steps, and show that you are invincibly strong in the strength which confidence in God alone can confer. Thus you will be delivered from anxious care, you will not be troubled with evil tidings, your heart will be fixed, trusting in the Lord. How pleasant to float along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living than a life of dependence upon a covenant-keeping God. We have no care, for He careth for us; we have no troubles, because we cast our burdens upon the Lord.
I think you will agree that there was no way for me to improve on that devotional. There is no better way to begin another month than to cast all of our cares upon our Lord. So much did He care for us that He refused to save Himself so that He could by dying, save us. This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT…AMEN!
Grace for the Race 