Trust | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 19.

Trust.

THE exhortations to trust in God, and the reasons for it, are often reiterated in the word. It seems as if the Holy Spirit who “moved” holy men to speak and write, in his tender sympathy with humanity, understood our deepest wants, and sought to bring to human hearts the strength and stay so sorely needed. To trust! What else can be done in the midst of life's perplexities and its seeming impossibilities? There are moods of the soul when it cannot rise to the heights of faith. Those lofty peaks on which we have sometimes stood and feasted our eyes on wide and glorious prospects, are for the time hidden in mists. Impassable rocks intervene; chilling snow-drifts have beaten in upon the way; it seems as if we shall never stand upon those summits again.

The sun of hope has set in the evening of disappointment, and the blackening of night has shut out every star; then, in the valley and in the night, the soul can only trust.

“Even when my faith is small, Trusting Jesus, that is all.”

“Who is among you that . . . walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.”

If we can but feel after God, and find him in all the realizations of a holy trust, surely we shall have found the center of eternal calm—God's unutterable peace. Oh, how we need it, you and I! “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried; he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.”—Sel.

“ALL his commandments are sure.” Ps. 111: 7.