6 Benefits for trusting God in Hard Times

Read Psalm 25.

If you have ever felt lonely, afflicted, troubled, distressed, and hated you are in good company.  To say that King David was under duress when he wrote this song would be an understatement.  He experienced all those emotions at the same time!

He prayed to the LORD to know what to do and which way to go (vv.4-5). His fear was that after all his praying and trying to please the LORD that he would come to an embarrassing end.  So, he waited, waited, and waited some more for God to act on his behalf.

This test of his faith caused him to go back to the basics.  Instead of living in fear of circumstances, what is a person who trusts in God supposed to be experiencing?  "Who is the man who fears the LORD?" (v.12)  What does God do for that person?

6 Benefits for Trusting God. (vv.12-16)

1. God will show what to do.

"Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose."

God has a plan and He knows the way.  Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

2. God will give His peace.

"His soul shall abide in well-being."

He is the only true source of peace.  Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you."

3. God will sustain the future.

"His offspring shall inherit the land."

More than material goods, there is a legacy of our faith we leave for the next generation and beyond.

Psalm 22:30-31 "Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the LORD to the coming generation; they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it."

4. God will be THE best friend forever.

"The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him."

We may be lonely, but we are never alone.  God's presence is always with us.

Hebrews 13:5b-6 "I will never leave you nor forsake you.  So we can confidently say, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?'"

5. God will keep His promise.

"He makes know to him His covenant."

More than instruction, God has made eternal promises and He will fulfill them.  Galatians 3:13-14 "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree'--so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith."

6. God will protect us.

"For he will pluck my feet out of the net."

There all kinds of dangers with each and every step in life.  Psalm 91:2 "I will say to the LORD, 'My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.'"