Text: “Blessed (blessed with many blessings) is the
man/woman that maketh the Lord his/her trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor
such as turn aside to lies.”
Psalm 40:4.
Good morning, true-trusting
Christian! When the Living Lord God
granted you and I faith to believe in Christ Jesus – in His Holy Person; in His
sinless birth, life, and death upon that cruel Cross; in His willing Sacrifice
on that Cross to make the Atonement payment for our vile sins; in His
resurrection from the dead to justify us in the sight of our Father in Heaven –
He gave us faith to TRUST in things
Spiritual, things that cannot be seen by the human eye; touched by the human
hand; and tasted by the sensual power of a mere human tongue. Such determined trust requires a miraculous
ingredient to make it consistently work.
That supernatural ingredient must be one that is given as a gift from
our Supernatural Lord God: FAITH.
God granted you
and I, ‘His people’, faith to fully trust in His Son, Christ Jesus, and His
Eternal Salvation of our souls.
Hallelujah! What a powerful trust
which can only be exercised by God’s gift of genuine Christian faith! (Matthew 1:21)
“Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall
direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
“For by grace are
ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift
of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Verse 4. “Blessed.” The word ‘blessed’ literally means ‘blessed
with blessings’, or ‘blessed with many blessings’. When the trusting man/woman is Scripturally
‘blessed’ in this manner – the full blessings of the Lord God Almighty are
liberally granted, in full recognition of the Divine trust being
exercised. We trust God and His Word
only because He has granted us His Supernatural gift of faith to do so. Then, when we exercise that gift of faith in
His service, He pours out the multiple blessings upon us. Wow!
What a gracious and merciful, and wonderful Lord God we seek to serve! Hallelujah!
All thanks be to God for His bountiful gift of faith to trust Him, and
the reception of all His attendant blessings!
Verse 4. “Blessed is the man/woman that maketh the
Lord his/her trust. Trusting
the Lord God with faith in His Word – both the Living Word, Christ Jesus, and
the written Word of inspired Scripture (KJV) – brings us into a close situation
of God’s care and protection; His ever-ready call, His inspiration; His
guidance and His direction for our lives.
The Lord God is henceforth under Divine moral obligation to undertake
for us, as we have forsaken all confidence in our own puny strengths and fallen
human resources to place our entire being under His Sovereign will and grace.
Dictionary Definition: Trust – (noun)
worthiness of being relied on; fidelity; confidence in the truth of anything;
confident expectation; a resting on the integrity, friendship, etc of another;
faith; hope; ground of confidence; that which is given or received in
confidence; charge; responsibility; anything felt to impose moral
obligations;… (The Chambers Dictionary,
page 1783)
Verse 4. “Blessed is the man that maketh (makes, and
continues to make) the Lord his trust. Faith
obtaineth promises. A simple, single-eye
confidence in God is the sure mark of blessedness. A man/woman may be poor as Lazarus, as hated
as Mordecai, as sick as Hezekiah, as lonely as Elijah, but while his hand of
faith can keep its hold on God, none of his/her outward afflictions can prevent
his being numbered among the blessed.”
(C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 194)
The human hand of
a regenerate believer can only exercise such a necessary trust, because the
Lord God has given him/her His gift of true Christian faith to do so. Doing so, trusting the Lord God in all
things, that believer is surely and Eternally blessed by God.
Verse 4. “…Respecteth not the proud. Proud men are
tyrants and persecutors of God’s people.
They know and own no other god but themselves. Herod was such a proud ruler, yet taking the
glory to himself, was struck down to death with a fatal worm. We are not to give
our respect onto the rich or proud. (See
Acts 13:19-24)
Verse 4. “…Nor such as turn aside to lies. We must
never pay deference to apostates, time-servers, and false teachers; they are an
ill leaven, and the more we purge ourselves of them the better; they are
blessed whom God preserves from all error in creed and practice. Verily (truly) were the archfiend of Hell to start
a carriage and pair, and live like a lord, he would have thousands who would
court his acquaintance.” (C.H. Spurgeon,
Treasury of David, page 194)
In a day of open
apostasy and opposition to the truths of the Christian faith as taught in the
King James Version Bible – we can find many professing faith in Christ, yet who
are following after, if not actually worshipping, apostate preachers and TV
Evangelists who inevitably punctuate anything they say with a plea to pledge
money to their ‘ministries’. Show me the Pastor who’s mind is fixed on
finances, and I will show you a double-minded man whose only treasure is here
on earth. Christian, beware!
Judas Iscariot had his eyes fixed firmly on the common purse!
If we Christians
had only verse 4 of Psalm 40 as our written guidance for life as Christians, we
would have a banquet of truth and direction indeed. When we place our full trust in the Christ of
God to save our sin-sick souls; and to supply our every need in this life and
in the next – we find Him to be more than sufficient indeed.
“But my God shall
supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)
Thought: ‘Only trust Him, only
trust Him, only trust Him now... He will save you, He will save you…He will
save you now.’ Let’s keep right on trusting
the Lord Jesus – He will never let us down.
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