“Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.”
—Psalm 37:3
The measure of our trust in the Lord is determined by how well we know the Lord. How well do you know the Lord through His Word? The Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:12, “…for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.” The Apostle Paul knew Christ was trustworthy and he willingly entrusted everything to Him. Do you know that the Lord can be trusted? Do you trust Him with your whole life?
The goal of every believer is to know Christ in a greater measure, to let the word of Christ dwell in him richly, and to think Christ’s thoughts after Him. This is the only way we will ever trust in the Lord. To “Trust in the Lord” is a call to know the Lord, and to know the Lord means to be in saving relationship with Him. To know the Lord is to be in union with Him. Adam knew his wife and she conceived and bore a son. The idea of “knowing” in Scripture is not just “knowing about” someone but being joined and united to that person. That is why Paul wrote in Philippians 3:8-10, “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death…”
The only way we can know the Lord in this way is by true faith. By true faith, we are united to Christ as members of His body (1 Cor. 12). By true faith, we know that He is the eternal Lord who is faithful to a thousand generations of those who love Him. By true faith, we know He is the great I AM, He is Jehovah Jireh, God our Provider, the One who is and who was and who is to come.
How well do you know the Lord? How much time do you spend growing in the knowledge of Christ? When we meet someone we like, we enjoy spending time getting to know them. Well, how much time do you spend getting to know God through His Word? If you do not spend time in His Word then you do not know God, for to know Him is to love Him, and your love is expressed by desiring to spend time with Him. Do you know Him? Take some time today to read Job chapters 38-42 and get to know in a greater measure the sovereign and almighty God in whom we live and move and have our being.
In Christ,
Pastor S. Henry