“Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding; 
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will direct your path.”  Proverbs 3:5-6

This Scripture is well known to all of us!  In this time in which we live, we need to rely wholly on God.  Let’s see what Scripture opens up to us.  Hopefully this brief message will cause each of us to delve deep in the Word that admonishes us to trust in Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent God.

So we look at things we are not to put our trust in--
Wealth:
“Those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the multitude of their riches,
None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give God a ransom for him.”  Psalm 49:6-7

In leaders:
“Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in a human being, in whom there is no salvation.
His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day his plans perish.”  Psalm 146:3-4

In man:
“Thus says the LORD:
‘Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart turns away from the LORD.
He is like a shrub in the desert…He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness in an uninhabited salt land.”  Jeremiah 17:5-6

In works:
“For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, 
you also shall be taken;
And Chemosh (a pagan god of the Moabites &Ammonites) shall go into exile with his priests and officials.”  Jeremiah 48:7

In one’s own righteousness:
“When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works will be remembered; because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die.”  Ezekiel 33:13

Scripture speaks throughout the Bible of our need to trust God.  There are exhortations--
“Trust in the LORD, and do good; 
Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.”  Psalm 37:3
And Vs. 35,
“Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.”  
(Read all of Psalm 37 and be blessed.)

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, 
Because he trusts in You.
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD is an everlasting rock.”  
Isaiah 26:3-4

“Who among you fears the LORD?
Who obeys the voice of His Servant?
Who walks in darkness and has no light?
Let him trust the name of the LORD 
And rely upon his God.”  Isaiah 50:10

Psalm 118:8 tells us,
“It is better to put trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence in man.”  

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!”  Psalm 32:10-11

“Those who trust in the LORD 
Are like Mount Zion,
Which can’t be moved, but abides forever.”  Psalm 125:1

“You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You’
Because he trusts in You.
Trust in the LORD forever’
For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.”  Isaiah 26:3-4

There are so many more verses concerning trust in the LORD in the Old Testament. In the New Testament in the gospel of John we have many references to the truth.

“But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.”  John 4:23

“Jesus said to him (Thomas), ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.”  John 14:6

Again speaking to His disciples Jesus tells them,
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me, and you will also bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”
John 15:26-27

In these last three verses we see Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! The LORD!

All praise, honor and glory to the only wise God in whom we have placed all our trust for He alone is the trustworthy One!  Amen