{"id":584,"date":"2020-08-04T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scribewalker.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:14:10","slug":"be-part-of-the-remnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scribewalker.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/be-part-of-the-remnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Part of the Remnant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trusting God Implictly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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We are often tempted to seek worldly ways out of our problems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How patient our God is in dealing with His people. Throughout Biblical history and even up to the present, we have failed to believe in Him and sought other ways to sort out our problems, despite His constant exhortations to trust Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In repentance and rest is your salvation; in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” (Isaiah 30:15)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Who is among you who fears the\u00a0LORD, who listens to the voice of his servant?\u00a0He\u00a0who\u00a0walks\u00a0in\u00a0darkness, and\u00a0has no light,\u00a0let him trust\u00a0in the name of the\u00a0LORD,” (Isaiah 50:10)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding<\/em> (Prov. 3:5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God deals in remnants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yet, whenever God’s people turn away from Him, instead of towards Him in times of trouble, there is always a remnant who stays faithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God deals in remnants — those who remain true to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do believe He is sorting out His remnant in these trying times. He is preparing a people who will trust Him despite the darkness around them, as Isaiah urges us to do in the passage above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God blesses those who trust Him implicitly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What wonderful promises He has throughout His Word for those who trust Him implicitly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about this: No matter what happens to us, if we trust God unreservedly, we are always on the winning side. If things go well, we can praise Him for all He does. When things don’t go so well, we can praise Him for walking with us through them — and in my experience, He does that in wonderful ways. I describe in my book, God in the ICU<\/a>, how He was present so powerfully as my darling wife lay dying. He did not heal her — He told me He would not — but so tangible was His peace, that I accepted it with the quiet assurance that it was all going to be okay. Even as we contemplate dying, we are victorious if we trust Him, for as one man who was threatened with martyrdom exclaimed, \u201cYou cannot frighten me with heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was speaking to Him in my Quiet Time one morning and saying, “Lord, I’d love to be with You. I’m not afraid of dying, but I’m concerned about leaving my wife all alone.” and I felt His whisper saying, “Don’t you trust Me to look after her?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realised, even in that, there was security in trusting Him, and exclaimed, “Yes, Lord. Of course. I can do that.” And from then on, I had perfect peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a wonderful teaching and testimony here<\/a> if you want to take this further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take heart. God loves to have you trust Him unreservedly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How are you managing under lockdown? Are you managing to put everything into God’s hands and be part of the remnant? It’s a decision — an act of the will to trust, to have faith in Him. If it’s a struggle, I’d encourage you to look up all the scriptures that exhort us to trust Him in all circumstances, and those which tell of His faithfulness to provide for those who do. You might be surprised at how many there are. You’ll find ten of them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deciding to trust God to provide is a great way to worship Him. We don’t always have to sing. If you decide, in your heart that He is able to look after you in every way, I have no doubt it will be God’s turn to sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trusting God Implictly We are often tempted to seek worldly ways out of our problems How patient our God is in dealing with His people. Throughout Biblical history and even up to the present, we have failed to believe in Him and sought other ways to sort out our problems, despite His constant exhortations to … <\/p>\n

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