Psalm 37 NKJV
Verse
3
Trust in the LORD,
and do good
Dwell in the land,
and feed on His faithfulness
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Trust:
have confidence in, be bold, secure, sure of
LORD:
JEHOVAH, name of God, self-existent one, eternal
Good:
benefit another, be better, be gracious, joyful, kind
Dwell:
reside permanently, abide, remain,rest
Feed:
graze, tend to a flock
Verse
three contains a great promise. Trust in the LORD and do good
and
be fed. So how do we lay hold of this promise. We
have to
trust, have confidence in, and be secure in our knowing.
Maybe be
boldly sure of the LORD. We trust Him and we know down deep
in
our "knower" that we can have complete confidence in Him. Who
is
it that we can trust? The LORD, JEHOVAH God, the
self-existent
one. I like that term that I found in the Strong's
Concordance. Self-existent, not created, not dependent on
anyone
or anything other than Himself. He is eternal, no beginning,
no
end.
So we trust ourselves to this eternal LORD. But that is
not the end of it. It is only the first step. We
can't just
sit there and expect to have a victorious life. Trusting in
God
can give us salvation but to be able to dwell in the land and be fed,
we need to do good. Do the right thing, things that are
obedient
to God's principles, things that benefit others. Things that
are
pleasing to God. So we need to trust Him and do
good. Then
we can dwell, permanently reside, in His land and being the Good
Shepherd that He is, He will tend His flock and feed us. I
believe that means we can freely graze His land knowing that He will
protect us and provide for us. The LORD is ever faithful.
Let
me share something that just happened tonight. We had just
returned from Sonya's funeral, Papa went to sit in his recliner and I
went to the kitchen to start supper. It was time for Papa's
pills
so I got them and a glass of water and took them to him. When
I
walked into the living room I saw something on the floor that was not
there when we first arrived home. I asked Papa, "What's
this?"
and picked it up. It was a cross-stitched bookmark that Sonya
had
made for him several years ago. Somehow it had fallen out of
our
Family Bible and was on the floor. The verse on it reads, "We
shall be like HIM for we shall see HIM as HE is". It is taken
from I John 3:2, one of Papa's favorite verses.
We both really
feel like God gave us this assurance that Sonya is seeing Him right
now. We had not seen that bookmark in a long time and to
return
from her funeral and the bookmark she made just appear out of nowhere
is no coincidence. Our Family Bible has never spit out a
bookmark
before.
As we trust in Him and follow Him, He provides all we need.
Papa and I needed that assurance and God gave it to us.
We can trust Him in all things and for all things.
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"...He
(JESUS) is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him
are called, chosen, and faithful.” Rev 17:14 ------- Toni T.
