Total Confidence in God
As I have said many times, we have many challenges in life. When we come to a problem or a need, we have to decide what we are going to do, and we have to decide who we are going to trust to help us. If we put our trust in other people, we will be let down. The only way to be fully assured that things are going to go the way they should go is to have total confidence in God's power and provision. To do that we must be sure that He is Lord of all and that He can and will do what is necessary and right every time. Jeremiah had come to that point in his life. People rejected him and wanted to harm him, but he kept trusting in God alone through the challenges. (Jeremiah 17:14) "O Lord, if You heal me, I will be truly healed; if You save me, I will be truly saved. My praises are for You alone." I love this sincere statement of the prophet's total confidence in God, and I hope we can all say the same thing. If not, we need to do a heart check. We all get sick. We go to the...