THE MAN WHO TRUSTS

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Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, Whose trust is the Lord.

Reading the text today, there is a preamble which is followed by two dimensions of trust identified. The first, ‘blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord’, is indicative of a posture that comes from your effort: your dealings and actions that suggests you trust. You show that you trust.

However, another dimension of trust is captured in the second half of this verse: ‘blessed is the man whose trust is the Lord’. A trust can be thought of as a system setup and entrusted with the management of an asset. All one does is commit things to the trust and allow them to manage it. This is the kind of trust exhibited in these words:

“Though he slay me, yet will I trust him” (Job 13:15)
“I know whom I have believed, I am convinced that he is able to keep that which has been committed to him against that day”(2 Tim 1:12)
“Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42)
This is a capture of trust as an insurance, an assurance, a guarantee and a hope.

Beloved, there is a place to show you trust God, but, there is a realm where God becomes ‘your trust’. That is where you are totally abandoned to him.

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