“Trust (in) the LORD with all your heart (mind, emotions and will), and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5, 6)
“Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You” (Psalm 56:3)
In the year 1876 Edgar Page Stites wrote the following comforting words:
“Simply trusting ev’ry day, trusting through a stormy way;
Even when my faith is small, trusting Jesus that is all.
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Brightly doth His Spirit shine into this poor heart of mine;
While He leads I cannot fall, trusting Jesus that is all.
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Singing if my way is clear, praying if the path is drear;
If in danger, for Him call, trusting Jesus, that is all.
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Trusting Him while life shall last, trusting Him till earth be past;
Till within the jasper wall, trusting Jesus, that is all.’
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Trusting as the moments fly, trusting as the days go by;
Trusting Him whate’er befall, trusting Jesus, that is all!”
“A minister was visiting a woman with an incurable illness. She was depressed and deeply distressed. ‘The future is so dark,’ she said. The minister asked, ‘Can’t you trust yourself in God’s hands?’ ‘Not for long,’ she said. ‘And I can’t leave myself there.’
Her pastor repeated the chorus of this song. …And then he sang it for her. The change that came over her was wonderful, the pastor said later. And she never lost her trust. She had the page in her hymnbook turned down so that anyone who visited her could read it to her again. “Trusting Jesus, that is all!” [Taken from William J. Petersen, The Complete Book of Hymns, p. 115].
[Leon Morris, in his book Jesus is the Christ, rightly concludes: “It is a trust in Jesus, not in favorable circumstances” (p. 184)!
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