INTRODUCTION. Trust is an issue that we all deal with because our interactions with one another will determine just how much we will rely and depend on each other. By definition, the word trust means “reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence; it is the confident expectation of something; hope.” Some people have an easy time trusting others, while some people, because of the hand that life has deal them, have difficulty trusting people. For example, in some cases, a young child will not have a problem going to an adult or another person because they don’t see that person as a threat, or someone that will harm them. On the other hand, as that child gets older and experience life, it tends to find out that not everyone is to be trusted, and will act accordingly.
Sometimes we have problems trusting people because we don’t know exactly what they’re up to, or the fact that we’ve been hurt in the past. Some people have ulterior motives and personal agendas and will use you or anyone else to get what they want. We’ve trusted them, gave them our all, only to be hurt, feel busted and disgusted, all because we gave them our trust.
The Bible teaches us in Psalm 118:8-9, “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.” People will let you down; people will turn on you; people will use and abuse you; but the Lord will bless you like nobody else can. Knowing that man has limitations and that God is all powerful, I would like to give you a few reasons why We Should Trust God During Uncertain Times! Our text says…
1. He’s Our Rock. In this case, God is our foundation, upon which we can stand on to keep us steady and upright. You do know that when a building is erected, a foundation must be poured first in order for it to stand against the elements and natural disasters. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 32:4, “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” I want a perfect God with perfect ways to be my Rock.
2. He’s Our Fortress. The word fortress here literally means a mountain stronghold – a place of strength and safety. In Psalm 91:2 says, “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God, in Him will I trust.”
3. He’s Our Deliverer. Here, deliverer means the one who causes one to escape. There will be times when we need help in escaping our troubles or help with troubling times and God can do just that for us. David said in Psalm 40:17, “But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.”
4. He’s God. Can’t nobody be God but God and David recognized that. He made it a point to call on God in his times of troubles, and also, when things were going well. Here, the name God comes from the Hebrew word El and it means, “the Almighty, the Strong One. El is God the Omnipotent; the God who knows all, sees all, and performeth all things for His people.” He said in Psalm 57:2, “I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.”
5. He is Strength. This Hebrew word means firmness, fountain, and source. In Isaiah 26:4 we find, “Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.” Notice if you will that the strength of the Lord will never run out as it is an everlasting strength. That’s something we need to know, and more importantly, to look forward to, knowing that He will never get tired and His strength will always be there.
6. He’s A Buckler. This means that God is a shield and defender. He covers the head and heart so that neither is wounded by the darts of the enemy. Solomon said in Proverbs 2:7, “He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walketh uprightly.”
7. He’s the Horn of Salvation. Horns are frequently used in Scripture as symbols of power, so this would mean a powerful salvation. Can you imagine how strong the clutches of sin had on us and we needed something and someone more powerful than that sin to provide us salvation. In 2 Samuel 22:3 we’re told, “The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.”
8. He’s the High Tower. Coming from the Hebrew word “misgab,” it signifies a place so high as to be completely out of danger. Only God can take us or put us in a place where danger, trouble, and pain can’t reach us! David said of God in Psalm 144:2 that God was, “My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.”
SUMMARY/CLOSING: When you know God to be all those things, it helps you to trust Him, but what I liked most is found in verse 6 which reads, “In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.” You see, when you need Him the most, you can trust that He will hear and answer your prayer.
