Monday, October 30, 2017

Dear Young Christian:

If you worry you do not trust!

If you trust you do not worry!

So said the note on the bulletin board on the kitchen wall of the home I was staying in. I am a worrier by nature. I tend to fret and to be concerned with things I think are going to happen in the near and distant future.

Three times in Psalm 37, David, the inspired writer, exhorts us, “Fret not thyself” (Psalm 37:1, 7-8). David was a man who had a lot of problems in his life. A lot to worry about. But in this same Psalm he had learned to “trust in the Lord,” and to “rest in the Lord” (Verses 3, 7).

Some of us tend to be worriers more than others, but as believers we can all learn to trust more. So much does the Lord value our trust and confidence that He tells us He will reward us for every time we simply trust. He promises, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward” (Hebrews 10:35).

Your Christian Friend,

Jim Hyland

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