Psalms Chapter 40
I Trust With Conditions.
The psalmist waited patiently for God to deliver him. God delivered him and the psalmist proclaimed God’s wonderful deeds and wonders with others.
This is a difficult passage because we are called to trust God. I’ve seen people say they trust God to heal their marriage or heal their loved one who has cancer. I’ve seen those praying strong and hard for a deliverance that never came. The marriage ended in divorce and the loved one died of cancer. That’s hard and it hurts.
Some people say I love you but they put conditions on it. I’ll love you if you give me what I want. I’ll love you if you do this for me.
That’s how we are when it comes to trusting God.
Trusting with conditions says, I trust you God to heal this marriage and cancer therefore you have to do it or you aren’t real.
Trusting God without conditions says, God, I put my trust in you and my desire is for you to heal this marriage and cancer. But if it doesn’t happen, then I will trust you still knowing that you’re ways and thoughts and plans are not always my ways and thoughts and plans. It may hurt, but I’m trusting you despite the fact there wasn’t the healing I hoped for.
Do you see how trust goes beyond the “conditions” we place in our prayers.
It’s just like when Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were told they would be thrown into a blazing furnace for not bowing down to a false god, they responded our God can deliver us from this blazing furnace. They trusted that. But they didn’t put a condition on it. They ended their statement by saying, but even if God doesn’t deliver us from the blazing furnace we will still serve God 100%. (Daniel 3:16-20).
That should be our attitude when we say I trust God. God you can do this but if you don’t I will still serve you no matter what.
