Finding Faith in Life’s Trials

Gracespeaker
Jun 26
2 min read

“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.” – Psalm 62:1

If I could paint a picture of faith, I wouldn’t paint a picture of a beautiful cathedral or a church on a picturesque hillside. My portrait would not be of a mansion or of a life without care and problems.

While faith lives in all kinds of situations and lives, I believe it becomes most evident in the hardest of situations. In cancer wards and children’s hospitals. In the breaths of everyday people who struggle with depression and the heartaches of existence in an unfriendly world. In the eyes of mothers who laugh with chronically ill children and dads who go to work each day to keep food on the table for their families.

Faith stands battered and bruised by the trials of this life and, with tears streaming, proclaims

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Psalm 62:7, KJV.

I want to put an exclamation point at the end of that verse, because in my heart I can hear David’s triumph in the realization that his life is wrapped in the absolute security of who God is.

Psalm 62 is a cry of victory as David urges the people to trust God – ONLY God. Psalm 62:8

Read through that psalm and underline the times the word ‘only’ is used. It is significant.

The moment that my hope and expectation move from God to fixate on anything or anyone in this temporary world is the moment that I set myself up to be crushed and discouraged by disappointment.

No human institution, emotion, or relationship, or possession, or paycheck, or ambition, or accomplishment has the power to redeem and sustain me.

Only God.

Only God!

That is why God calls for and deserves my total commitment. That is why I can trust Him to order my steps rightly. That is why I can rest in Him.

Today, I am checking my heart.