Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.  Psalm 37:5-6

     I have a client whose father, age 90, lives with her brother. She has issues because of her brother’s handling of her father’s money. It is not so much about him spending her inheritance; she believes it is wrong that he’s taking advantage of her father, and she isn’t sure what to do. At the same time, when she has approached her father about this, he says, “Don’t worry about it. That is between your brother and me.” One night she was so upset that she could not sleep. Why was she so filled with anxiety? What should she do about it? She asked God to speak to her.

     Late into the night God finally spoke: “Right now you can’t do anything, but the issue is this: You don’t really trust Me to take care of this.” The answer was so sharp and clear, she knew it was true. She didn’t trust God to handle the situation with her father. Maybe she didn’t believe He could be trusted to act, or that He was aware of this small thing.

     While my client was talking God spoke to me about something that I was fretting about.  Verse 8 in Psalm 37 says, “Do not fret; it only leads to evil.” The evil for me is the arrogance of thinking that I need to be involved: God might not do right by me or my problem might “fall off His radar.” And the truth? I wasn’t completely trusting God with my situation.

     Then my client, without any further words, began to read out loud the words of this old hymn. I had only heard them sung, but they took on new power when she started quietly speaking:

Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to take Him at His word,
Just to rest upon His promise, Just to know, “Thus saith the Lord.”
How I love to trust in Jesus, Just to trust His cleansing blood.
Just in simple faith to plunge me ‘neath the healing, cleansing flood.

Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! O for grace to trust Him more.

Yes, I’ve learned to trust in Jesus, And from sin and self to cease,
Now from Jesus simply taking life and rest and joy and peace.
I’m so glad I learned to trust Him, precious Jesus, Savior, Friend
And I know that He is with me, He’ll be with me to the end.

 Father, I believe. Help my unbelief. In my fretting I am allowing my thoughts of unbelief to run over my faith. I want to take from You life and rest and joy and peace, so I trust You now. I rest in You. Amen.


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