Two Kinds of Trust

    My Bible study for today was Psalm 46. Verses 1 and 10 are often quoted:

 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." vs 1

 "Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth!"10

   In between are verses about not fearing though the earth be removed, the mountains carried into the sea, waters roaring and mountains shaking, God stopping the wars against His people. Beautiful. Poetic. Inspiring. But what does it really take to shake us?  Political news? Media fearmongering? In reality, not much. So today I am contemplating trust. Specifically:

Two Kinds of Trust 

There is a difference between trusting God

in the midst of what is happening in our world

and trusting Jesus to come back

to rescue me from it.

 

The first is to trust come what may.

The latter is to trust I’ll get away.

There is a place for both.

 

We are to watch for that blessed hope,

but not as an escape hatch

for a world we feel is out of God’s control—

because that is not true.