Trusting in God
Trusting in God's infinite love, wisdom, and power brings peace and rest in the midst of life's challenges.
Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the strength and power that God provides to His people, praising and blessing Him for His faithfulness. The sermon encourages facing distress, pain, and even death with a brave and glad heart, knowing that those defended by the Almighty and counted as friends by the Highest cannot ultimately perish. Trusting in the unseen Presence and support of God, turning to Him in times of loneliness, disappointment, or depression, brings a different perspective to life, filled with the assurance of His all-embracing care and perfect love. The sermon highlights the importance of seeking to do what is pleasing in God's sight, trusting in His wisdom, love, and power, and finding rest in surrendering our desires to His will.
Text
The God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto His people. Blessed be God.
--PSALMS 68:35
I WILL meet distress and pain,
I will greet e'en Death's dark reign,
I will lay me in the grave
With a heart still glad and brave;
Whom the Strongest doth defend,
Whom the Highest counts His friend,
Cannot perish in the end.
--PAUL GERHARDT
COULD we but live more entirely in the unseen Presence, and trust to the unseen support,--and if lonely, or disappointed, or depressed, turn more quickly to God, fully confident of His all-embracing care, believing in His perfect love, the tender sym.pathy with which He ever regards us, how different life would be from what it ordinarily is! Yet we doubt not that Divine support is assured to us, if we seek to do what is pleasing in His sight. If the end we desire comes not, yet there is rest in the assurance that we have told Him all, and left it to Him to do what He wills.
--T. T. CARTER
How reasonable it is to trust ourselves to the keep.ing of infinite love, and infinite wisdom, and infinite power!
--THOMAS ERSKINE
Sermon Outline
- Introduction to Trusting in God
- Facing Distress and Pain
- Living in the Unseen Presence
- Rest in God's Assurance
- Leave our desires to God's will
- Trust in God's infinite love, wisdom, and power
Key Quotes
“Whom the Strongest doth defend, Whom the Highest counts His friend, Cannot perish in the end.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“How reasonable it is to trust ourselves to the keeping of infinite love, and infinite wisdom, and infinite power!” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“Could we but live more entirely in the unseen Presence, and trust to the unseen support,” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Turn quickly to God in times of loneliness, disappointment, or depression, and trust in His support.
- Leave your desires to God's will and find rest in the assurance that you have told Him all.
- Live more entirely in the unseen Presence of God by trusting in His all-embracing care and perfect love.