Hope and Trust in God No Matter Your Life’s Storms

“Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”
Psalm 25: 4-5

In what do you place your hope in friend? Is it something or someone that can shift and change, possibly letting you down.

A close relationship with someone. Your money, your items, your own abilities or physical prowess, your ability to accomplish so much on your own?

All of those things are blessings from the Lord— our abilities, our talents, our giftings, our finances. They could shift so quickly though. We are not in control of them fully.

The only One who does not shift but instead stands firm is God.

He is the only One you or I can be fully sure on. His character and qualities do not change. He upholds the promises from the Bible.

We can place our trust and our hope in Him, no matter the good or difficult circumstances of our life that we are walking through. It doesn’t mean we won’t walk through difficult things in this life, but we will have God’s strength and His leading through it and can hope in eternity.

In these verses, the psalmist is seeking God. He wants to know God and know the right way to do life.

Show me. Teach me. Guide me.

An earnest and humble heart before the Lord is what is necessary to be used fully by Him. The psalmist requests the Lord to be His teacher and His helper in how to go about His life.

The book of James talks about if we ask God for wisdom that He will give wisdom to us.

James 1:5 “If any you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”

James 1:6a goes on to tell us that “…when he asks, he must believe and not doubt…”

Do we truly believe God without doubt when we ask Him for wisdom, when we ask for Him to lead us? We are called to do it.

God gives that wisdom generously to all without finding fault— without judgment.

Did you see that? God doesn’t berate you for what you did or for your doubt. He says come. And holds His arms outstretched. He desires relationship with you. He offers forgiveness and newness of life.

Will you humble yourself and ask Him to help you? Ask Him to guide you? Will you tell him the iniquities, the wrongs, the sins you’ve committed and ask forgiveness for them and then ask for His help to turn from them and walk in a new way, His way? To ask for His help and for His wisdom to walk in newness of life with Him.

If we seek God, He will respond.
Later in Psalms 25, in verse 9, it says:

“He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.”

I don’t know about you, but I want to be led in His way, in the right way, I should go. I desire clarity and wisdom for my life.

Verse 11 says, “For the sake of your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.”

We are called to identify our sins, our iniquity, and ask the Lord’s forgiveness for them.

We are called to a humbleness of heart. God gives grace to the humble. He honors and blesses those who truly humble themselves before Him, in order to be led in the best way they should go for their life.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3: 5-6).

Like the beginning verse said, “our hope is in God all day long.” Did you catch the last few words “all day long?”

“My hope is in you all day long.” This is a posture of continual focus on God, finding our hope in Him throughout every hard decision and moment in our day, each day. A posture of leaning into His way and walking with Him.

Allowing Him to guide us through each moment. Not leaning on our own understanding and on our own abilities through each moment but asking Him for his help. This is a comforting way— for God leads with graciousness and leads us in our life for our best.

He loves you greatly and wants the absolute best for you, not the best the world may be seeking after, but the best that is found in Him. Found in walking in His ways. It is the only pursuit that truly satisfies. He doesn’t change though so much in our life can shift and change.

God is the constant, the anchor for our life, our Hope.

Will you trust Him with your one life and give it a try? He’s right there waiting for you.

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