Don't be Troubled....Trust In God

Psalm 102:1-3 -  A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the LORD. LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!  Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down your ear and answer me quickly when I call to you,  for my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.  My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.

 

An anonymous man…in the middle of his life…most likely penned these words while in captivity in Babylon. He had reached the end of his rope…and was desperate for God to intervene and save his people.  His distress was mental….physical….social and spiritual….he had nowhere else to turn except to God.

 

Perhaps the Palmist’s strength to hold on till God rescued him came from hearing Isaiah 26:3 which says…..“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”  Or maybe he had heard the words David wrote in Psalm 18:2 that say…..“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”

 

He models for me what I should do when I am overcome with any burden…I need to lift up my eyes to God…and share with him my fears…my worries…my distress….so he can carry the heaviest of the load for me like Jesus told us in john 14:1.  It says….  "Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me.”  As he was trying to help the disciples understand why he couldn’t stay on Earth with them any longer….and describe the rooms in Heaven he was preparing for each of us…he added these words in John 14:13-14 …. “You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father.  Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it!”

 

Father…thank you for the reminder that I need to trust you with absolutely everything….from the smallest concern…to the largest burden.  Help me to trust you fully with things that bother me…and always turn to you in prayer to ask your help.  Show me how to live a life that is completely dependent on you for the strength I need to do what you put me here to do.  Amen.