"Benefits of Trust"

“Benefits of Trust”

 

Psalm 71:4-6  Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.  For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth.  By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.  My praise shall be continually of You.

 

Our thought from Psalm 71 today: The Benefits of Trust include Deliverance

1.    Deliverance from the wicked—the pressures of the world around us (v. 4).  The longer we live the more we see how this world lies in the lap of the wicked one.  That causes believers to cry out for deliverance.  It also reminds us that we are strangers and pilgrims here. 

2.    Deliverance is based on hope—hope that had been established in the heart of the Psalmist when he was very young—he had grown up in a family that had honored God (v. 5).  We do not lay the foundations of our faith in our later years, we must lay them in childhood and youth.  You do the right thing if today you have purposed in your heart to worship God Sunday to build on your foundation of faith.  Also, you build that foundation as you daily set aside time to pray and read God’s Holy Word.

3.    Deliverance even at birth causes the Psalmist to credit God for everything (v. 6).  The Psalmist views birth as a form of deliverance.  As the child struggles for freedom, being delivered from the prison of the womb is a cause for praise to the Lord.