Trust in God

He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him: for He said, I am the Son of God. Matthew 27:43

Let a man trust in God, not in fiction but in fact, and he will find that he has solid rock under his feet. Let him trust about his own daily needs and trials, and rest assured that the Lord will actually appear for him, and he will not be disappointed. Such a trust in God is a very reasonable thing; its absence is most unreasonable. If there is a God, He knows all about my case. If He made my ear He can hear me, if He made my eye He can see me, and therefore He perceives my condition. If He is my Father, as He says He is, He will certainly care for me, and will help me in my hour of need if He can. We are sure that He can, for He is omnipotent. Is there anything unreasonable, then, in trusting in God that He will deliver us? I venture to say that if all the forces in the universe were put together, and all the kindly intents of all who are our friends were put together, and we were then to rely upon those united forces and intents, we should not have a thousandth part so much justification for our confidence as when we depend upon God, whose intents and forces are infinitely greater than those of all the world beside. “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.” If you view things in the white light of pure reason, it is infinitely more reasonable to trust in the living God than in all His creatures put together.

Let Him Deliver Him Now - Sermon 2029, Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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