Trusting God by S. Elmer

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1865

Trusting God.

By S. Elmer

How rich are the promises! how well adapted to the wants of God's children! How many are pining in sadness because they do not take God at his word. Oh it is good to ever trust in the Lord. The Psalmist had a sense of the great blessedness of committing all into the hands of the Lord when he exclaimed, "Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him." Again he says, "Many sorrows shall be unto the wicked, but he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass him about." But says one, "My case is so peculiar!" and perhaps the enemy points him back to some sin he has committed, and tells him 'tis vain to hope. But here comes in a promise, "The blood of Jesus cleanseth from all sin." Again we read, "He that confesseth and forsaketh shall find mercy."

We are to trust in the Lord at all times. Many are the cases left for us on record of those who trusted in him and were delivered. Perhaps we shall never be brought into a closer place than was the faithful Daniel. His enemies thought surely they had prevailed against him. He is cast among the hungry lions. They thought that they were sure of him then. But did his faith fail him in that critical moment? Oh no. With an unwavering trust he committed himself into the hands of his heavenly Father, and as his prayer ascended, behold an angel of the Lord came down and shut the lions' jaws.

And the Lord will deliver all those who put their trust in him. How consoling the thought that the Lord careth for us. That like as a father piteth his children, so the Lord piteth them that fear him. Oh who would not secure his favor. May we so live that we may have his smiles resting upon us, and the watchcare of ministering angels. Then when he maketh up his jewels, we shall be remembered.

S. Elmer.

Ashfield, Mass.