Trust and Choose God Always

Trust and Choose God Always

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 26:1-15

Focus Verse:  Isaiah 26:8  “Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws, our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.”

I read a quote by Vance Havner that says,   “You can’t break the law of God.  Nobody ever broke the law of God.  You break yourself against the law of God.”  That is true.  When we disobey God we are the loser, not God.  Our focus verse says, “we show our trust in God by obeying His laws.”  Yes we can choose to disobey God, but then things are not going to go so well for us.  Deuteronomy 30:19 says, “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!"   We have been given a choice between life and death, blessings and curses.  I don’t know why so many people in the world today are choosing death and curses.

I also think about 1Kings 11 where King Solomon was given a choice.  When a rich person has a heart to compromise, that's a dangerous combination.  That usually means they have the resources to get deeper into sin.  Solomon's spiritual compromise grew over time into a rampage of sinful behavior looking for pleasure.  Yes, he found some temporary pleasure.  He had so much money he could build any size home he wanted.  He could have any woman he wanted. He did not deny himself any pleasure.  When he came to the end of all that he said “it was all emptiness, like chasing after the wind.”  He wrote in Ecclesiastes “here now is my final conclusion, Fear God and obey His commands, for this is everyone’s duty.”  He went on to say, “Here’s what I’ve learned in life. Don’t fight against the laws of God.  They were given to us for a reason.”

Whether you are rich or poor, you have the choice to trust and obey or to follow your own desires.  Maybe you're saying to yourself, “I’d like to find this out for myself.”   Someone once said, “a wise man learns for the mistakes of others.”   Choose God and His ways for this is the path to a satisfied life of trusting God. 

Bobby Johnson

Interlocking Ministries