13 Days of Trust in the Lord and do good. Day 5.

Trust in the Lord chooses His idea of good, cultivating faithfulness wherever we are.

Our verse today is Psalm 37:3, “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.” The next verse in Psalm 37 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart” (vs. 4).

I believe that, when we trust the Lord enough to dwell where we are in faithfulness to Him, delighting in Him, that trust opens our hearts to His will. He is able then to fulfill our desires because they line up with His own.

When Jesus faced the cross of Calvary, we are told the stress of what he faced was such that it caused him to sweat blood. Did He dread the pain He would feel in His flesh body? Did He dread the mobs who would reject Him? Did He dread the weight of all the sin of humankind being placed on His shoulders? Or was it the knowledge that, in that moment, God would turn His back away from that sin, leaving Jesus to know the heart of one forsaken and alone?

All of that weighed heavy on Him, causing Him to cry out for the Father to remove that cup and not make Him drink it. Dread attacked The Christ for a bit, but it was trust in God, knowing Father truly does know best, that fed His response to the stressor. Desiring God’s will done God’s way led to the cry, “Yet not My will, But Thy will be done.”

Trust in the Lord aligns our heart’s desires to Him and His will, so we can do the good He desires with the provision of His supply.