Trusting God is more than a feeling; it’s a choice to have faith in what He says even when your feelings or circumstances would have you believe something different. Your feelings and circumstances matter and are very much worth paying attention to. God cares about them both. But those things alone are not reliable enough to base your life on. They can change at any moment, even in an instant. God, on the other hand, DOES NOT CHANGE. “I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. MAY MY MEDITATION BE PLEASING TO HIM, as I rejoice in the LORD.” (Psa. 104:33-34) [I will praise you Lord as YHWH; this was the name that God was first revealed by (it is a Tetragrammaton and contains no vowels). This name now is commonly used as Yahweh is best known from the famous “I AM” interaction with Moses (Exodus 3) and references the fact that God HAS ALWAYS EXISTED and WILL ALWAYS EXIST. The significance of the name Yahweh is that it is confirming God’s existence but most importantly His presence. Yahweh Elohim is the Creator, and as our God, a God in covenant with us, and this not now only, but “as long as we live, and while we have our being.” Because we have our being from God, and depend upon Him for the continual support of our lives, as long as we live and have our being we must continue to praise God; and when we have no life, no being, on earth, we hope to have a better life and better being in a better world and there to be doing this work in a better manner and in better company! “May the glory of the LORD ENDURE FOREVER; may the LORD rejoice in His works–“ (Psa. 104:31) How blessed we are to PERSONALLY KNOW the glory of the LORD! “Glory in his holy name; LET THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO SEEK THE LORD REJOICE. Look to the LORD and his strength; SEEK HIS FACE ALWAYS.” (Psa. 105:3-4) We will see ourselves under all possible situations to give thanks to Him, and call upon His name, if we remember all the wonders which have made deep and durable impressions upon us! All of this we do by faith: “…without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that HE REWARDS THOSE WHO EARNESTLY SEEK HIM.” (Heb. 11:6) Our Abba Father loves us so much that He REWARDS us for thoroughly seeking to know Him better! “Now Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].“ (Heb. 11:1) AMP
THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING, WILL GUARD OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS IN CHRIST JESUS!
-Bill Stockham