“I will never leave you nor forsake you,” Hebrews 13:5 ESV, and “a very present help in trouble.” Psalms 46:1 ESV
Born out of the grief of losing her husband, who drowned in front of her and her young daughter while attempting to save a drowning boy, Louisa Stead penned the words, “Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him! How I’ve proved him o’er and o’er! Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! O for grace to trust him more!” The words are a mantra that still her troubled soul. They are a mantra that many of us turn to throughout our lives: “Jesus, Jesus! I trust Jesus!” Still, in how many situations do you find your first impulse is to turn to your checkbook, a doctor, a spouse or a friend, a comfort food or purchase, forgetting entirely to pray and trust Jesus? Yes, you’ve proved him “o’er and o’er” but you find yourself needing to be reminded to trust him again in each peculiar situation. Why? On one side of the “need/trust” spectrum, we don’t want to ask anyone for help; we feel we have to be self-sufficient in all things. On the other side, the average person is bombarded with hundreds of pitches every day to buy a product, to use a new drug, to try the latest philosophy. How many times in a day are you reminded to seek Jesus, to trust Jesus, to find out what is the “thus sayeth the Lord,” in your current situation? The answer, I’m sure, is seldom to never. Beloved, you are not self-sufficient nor do you need to turn to anything until you’ve turned to Jesus first. So refresh yourself, whether in grief or in joy, in your decisions and in your actions, to seek Jesus, to trust His Word—Trust Jesus! As the Scripture says, “I will never leave you nor forsake you,” Hebrews 13:5 ESV, and he is “a very present help in trouble.” Psalms 46:1 ESV
. . . “You don’t need to turn to anything until you’ve turned to Jesus first!”
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