Trust

 

Psalm 40:3-5 “He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in Him. Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods. Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you.

 

Word studies are important because we live in a day and time when words that have always been defined one way for centuries are now being redefined by atheistic secular humanists to indoctrinate this generation and advance a godless agenda. This is why I many times refer back to the first America Dictionary of the English Language in America by Christian patriot Noah Webster in 1828. His purpose in publishing it was so that Americans could look up words in the Bible that they didn’t fully comprehend and could read the full and proper definition in order to better understand the Word of God.

 

Like the word “honor”, the word “trust” has a verb form and a noun form. Webster’s dictionary defines the verb form of “trust” as: (1) To regard; to have regard to in design or purpose. (2) To have regard to, in relation or connection; to relate to. (3) To view or consider with some degree of reverence; to esteem as possessed of real worth. (4) To look towards. To respect the person, to suffer the opinion or judgment to be influenced or biased by a regard to the outward circumstances of a person, to the prejudice of right and equity.

 

Webster’s dictionary defines the noun form of “trust” as: (1) Regard; attention. (2) That estimation or honor in which men and women hold the distinguished worth or substantial good qualities of others. It expresses less than reverence and veneration, which regard elders and superiors; whereas respect may regard juniors and inferiors. Respect regards the qualities of the mind, or the actions which characterize those qualities. (3) That deportment or course of action which proceeds from esteem; regard; due attention; as, to treat a person with respect. (4) Good will; favor. (5) Respect of persons. (6) Respected character. (7) Consideration; motive in reference to something. (8) Relation; regard; reference; followed by of, but more properly by to. As in: They believed but one Supreme Deity [Creator God], which, with respect to the benefits men received from Him, had several titles.

 

In the above Bible passage, “Put their trust” in God is the Hebrew verb “bāṭaḥ”, meaning to boldly trust in their almighty Lord God; to hie [go quickly] for refuge, safely and securely with sure confidence. And, “who trusts” in the Lord (or the one who makes the Lord his trust) is the Hebrew noun “miḇṭāḥ”, meaning their full trust, confidence, refuge, confidence, security, assurance and confidence.

 

In Mark 12:29-30 Jesus proclaimed, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. Is “In God We Trust” more than just words in our National Motto and printed or engraved on our currency and coinage? Do you truly trust God, believe God, adoringly love God, revere, follow and obey God? Child of God, are you “all in” with your heavenly Father?

 

In Christ, Brian