"What Trust is About"

"Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence." (Psalms 91:3)
It's hard to believe that it has already been a year since my son went home to be with the Lord; but I know I will see him soon! I heard Dr. Chuck say something the other day, and I thought it was rather interesting; he was talking about looking at you time left in the space of weekends, as if twenty years was the average time you would have left, then that would give you 1,000 more weekends, there about. Fifty-two of those have passed since my sons passing; or 1/20th, if that helps speed things up. Taking off from yesterday's closing Scripture, there was something special about knowing that it's not our righteousness that gets the job done; what a mighty burden has been lifted off of our shoulders! Do you know what that allows us to do? We get to lift up our heads and praise the Lord! We can literally stretch up our arms and sing praises to the Lord, our salvation is in Him! That is what Isaiah 12 is all about, thanking God for saving us and making know His wonderful works. If we do not express the joy that we have been given, then what kind of testimony are we giving to what God has done? We must rejoice in our salvation; above all else, we must rejoice! That said, what are those things which might cause us to not rejoice? Here are a couple listed above, in case you were asking. The "snare of the fowler" is one that gets us focused upon the absolutely wrong direction. What I believe that speaks about is our natural way of looking for relief, which is to look upon the horizon. In other words, we look out over the surrounding possibilities for the relief that we need, and guess what, there is nothing in sight; there is no hope found as far as we can see, not for what we might be going through or what we are worried about. So, there are two things that need to happen, if that's what is bugging you and stealing your joy; you need to look up, not out, and you need to say something that might sound hard to say: So be it! There you go, you have just released yourself from one of the most powerful tools to take away your joy, worry! The "noisome pestilence" is second, which I believe is less important, is that of survival. For most, survival might be the most important thing on their minds; they might not even realize they are thinking of it, because it comes so naturally; and they don't even realize that they are being controlled by it. I believe this might be the biggest threat to unity within the church. Unlike the other, which causes us to look out for relief, this one causes us to look out for ourselves. So then, why did I say that it was less important? Because that's what I am, that's why...
"Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on the cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:3-11) NLT