I Will Trust In You

April 18

Little children have very real fears—the monsters in the closet, the ‘Cookie Monster’ who chases them in their imagination. The little ones laugh with delight at the notion of these pretend entities that are after them—unless it’s bedtime, the lights are out, and Mommy and Daddy have already left the room.

Adults have similar fears and anxieties. In the light of potential solutions, fear can be laid aside. The test will be easy. The economy will turn around. The new treatment will work. The peace negotiations will succeed. But if the test is difficult, if the economic recovery falters, if the treatment fails, if the negotiations are abandoned…then what?

One reality of life is that there is only One Source. There is only One Answer. And that One is our Jesus. He will never let us down. When every solution we try fails, when every hope we have is dashed, He has not begun to implement the resources He has at His disposal to effect the solution to our problem—to give us our miracle! He is not bound by the seen! He has power in the unseen realm!

Should we let doubt and fear dog our heals? If our hope is in temporal solutions to our problems, they will; but if our hope is in the Living Christ who has overcome sin and death and hell, then we need not fear! What should we do when we’re afraid? Psalm 56:3, 4 says, “When I am afraid, I will trust in You, in God whose word I praise, in God I trust. I will not be afraid.” Let fear be overcome through faith in our faithful God.