A Meditation on Trusting It ALL Into God’s Hands from Psalm 31:14-15

If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast. David writes… Psalm 31:14-15 NIV “You are my God” doesn’t JUST mean that David is putting God first above all other desires and potential idols in his heart. It is that. But in the Bible that phrase is used by God over and over to also mean that God is committing himself to be our God forever. OUR GOD — our protector and provider and our joy and meaning and happiness. Our caretaker and the one who controls all things. That’s his eternal commitment to us when he promises to be our God. And that’s the way David means it in this passage.  “I trust in you, LORD.” Right now you’re trusting in something for your best life. Maybe it’s in your plans. Your abilities. Maybe it’s a particular thing you want right now. A success. A relationship. A plan you have that you really want to work out. And perhaps it’s a good thing. But whatever it is, if you make it “your God” in some way it will let you down. Your imagination has created a future false reality that is a perfect exaggeration. All your life, whenever you trusted in your own plans and desires and in a way made them “your God,” every time in some way your expectations were always let down. A disappointment. That’s because finite things cannot meet our God need. And because we’re not God, we’re never in control of even our own plans. Trusting in your own plans and desires of what you need to be happy will always ultimately bring anxiety and insecurity and sometimes anger. Because you know deep down you’re NOT in control. Anxiety comes when we are afraid we’re not going to get something that we think we need, but we really don’t need. We just think we need it because of the plan we have for our lives. It’s what we’re “trusting” in. But the creator of this universe sees everything in all of time. So David found the better way in Psalm 31… LORD — in Hebrew it’s God’s name, Yahweh — HE IS…the I AM…Creator of everything. Source of Life itself. 100% present with his peo