Trust in the Lord

Preliminary:

Who is on every US bill and coin no it’s not a president but rather it is God - In God we Trust. I’m not so sure that our economy lives by that practice but at some point our Government decided to put that on our money. and there it is today.

300 Illustrations for Preachers German Billionaire Commits Suicide after Financial Crisis

We have heard stories for years about businessmen jumping from skyscrapers on hearing news of the stock market crash in 1929. Today’s executives cannot jump out of windows onto Wall Street; the windows do not open. On January 5, 2009, however, German billionaire Adolf Merckle threw himself in front of a train, driven to suicide by the global financial crisis.

Our wealth may not rise to billions; nevertheless we need put our hope and trust in God, not riches.

—Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell

Read: I have more of a Bible reading on the idea of “Trust in the Lord”

Trust can mean to have faith; strong confidence in, and reliance upon, to dedicate or trust entirely to a specific person, complete confidence in a person or plan, certainty based on past experience.

Psalm 4:5 KJV 1900

5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the Lord.

Psalm 37:3 KJV 1900

3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; So shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psalm 73:28 KJV 1900

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, That I may declare all thy works.

Psalm 118:8-9 “8 It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in princes.”

Proverbs 3:5 “5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding.”

Moody’s Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations Lady Pendulum

When Mr. Sankey and I were in London a lady who attended our meetings was brought into the house in her carriage, being unable to walk. At first she was very skeptical; but one day she said to her servant:

“Take me into the inquiry room.”

After I had talked with her a good while about her soul she said:

“But you will go back to America, and it will be all over.”

“Oh, no,” said I, “it is going to last forever.”

I couldn’t make her believe it. I don’t know how many times I talked with her. At last I used the fable of the pendulum in the clock. The pendulum figured up the thousands of times it would have to tick, and got discouraged, and was going to give up. Then it thought, “It is only a tick at a time,” and went on. So it is in the Christian life—only one step at a time. That helped this lady very much. She began to see that if she could trust in God for a supply of grace for only one day, she could go right on in the same way from day to day. As soon as she saw this, she came out quite decided. But she never could get done talking about that pendulum. The servants called her Lady Pendulum. She had a pendulum put up in her room to remind her of the illustration, and when I went away from London she gave me a clock—I’ve got it in my house still.

End with reading of song “Lean Hard on Him” by Judy Williams