Trust Him

January 20

Prayer doesn’t seem to be working for you? You lay awake on your bed at night crying to the ceiling and the ceiling doesn’t answer? There seems to be some sort of ‘test of faith’ going on and you can’t quite complete it and hand in your paper. You have no confidence of getting an ‘A’ when you’re finished.

Your feelings tell you it’s all been for nothing. You’ve striven to be the kind of a Christian who makes a difference in the world, but your efforts have exhausted you and your striving has seemed to accomplish nothing but your own weariness with the futility that appears to be the outcome of your labor.

You are not alone. Anyone who has named the name that is above every other name has traversed the same path of disappointment at some time or another in his walk with the One who has promised He will never fail or forsake the believer who trusts in Him (Hebrews 13:5).

Paul could have succumbed to this kind of disappointment, to faith-destroying negative thinking, but he chose to reaffirm his faith at the point of his exceeding trials. In II Timothy 1:12 he gives us his reason, “…I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I’ve committed to Him…” You may trust Him, too.