Feed On God's Faithfulness

I turned on the television to hear the day's news: a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Just a few weeks ago there was a deadly earthquake in New Zealand. Chaos and revolution continue in the Middle East. Here at home we're suffering floods on the east coast, financial melt downs, foreclosures, and unemployment. Add to this list your own personal headlines and it could appear that the whole world is falling apart and no one knows how to fix it. Even with powerful technology and the considerations of our greatest minds, solutions are far from being found.

How do we live in these times of unrest? Will the chaos inundate our lives? Maybe for you, it already has.

Psalm 37 is a great place to start. You can read it for yourself. Here's the paraphrase:

Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.

Feed on God's faithfulness, meditate on all that God has done for you and all that He has promised. We as believers have hope. Hope is a continuous expectation of God's goodness in your life.

We have a good God and it is His will to bless and take care of His children, even in death.

Secondly, delight yourself in the Lord. Take pleasure in God, let Him be your delight. The song that we sing is Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace...

Third, commit your way to the Lord. Put your future into God's hands, and let Him be in charge of the course of your life. If you expect God to bless you and to cause all things to work together for good, you have to trust Him on the mountains and in the valleys of life. Once and for all commit your way to Christ.

Rest in the Lord, and do not fret! Fretting is worry and worry says I can't trust or depend on God for this one. Worry is another form of doubt, which leads to fear, and fear leads to unbelief.

Unbelief in God’s faithfulness is sin.

In Psalm 37:25 David testified of God’s faithfulness, “I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.”

Feed on God's faithfulness, trust in His goodness, and rest in His love.