How to Maintain Trust in God During Difficult Moments
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.”
Psalm 103:2
When there is an interruption in your remembrance of God’s goodness in your life, the foundation on which your trust in God should be built is in jeopardy.
It is our remembrance of God’s past acts of mercy, kindness, and salvation that fuels our trust and dependence on Him.
Forget Not All His Benefits
It is important that you memorialize your testimony with a physical act to strengthen your confidence in God.
It takes divine intervention for a believer to sustain confidence in God. In addition, God also expects us to memorialize our testimony with physical action (to write it down, regularly testify about it, or have a visible reminder).
This is why God constantly instructed the children of Israel to raise monuments to commemorate the great miracles He did for them as He led them through the wilderness.
Our remembrance of God’s past acts of mercy, kindness, and salvation fuels our trust and dependence on Him.
The Psalmist speaks to his soul to remember all the blessings that God has blessed him with.
This context of remembering does not just relate to David’s mental capacity to recollect God’s goodness, it is deeper. It is deeper in the sense that the result of this remembrance provokes a response from the core of his being. His soul.
Remembering in this context doesn’t only refer to mental acuity—that alone is not sufficient to provoke the response that translates to faith in God. This kind of remembrance is deeply rooted in the soul. In other words, the deeds that are remembered were imprinted, not just in the mind, but in the soul and spirit.
Often, the case is that our memory fades, but at other times the reality is that the significance (or the emotive nature) of the memory diminishes. We are no longer inspired or stimulated by the memory to the point where we attach significance to it.
…the ultimate reality is pain… You may question many things but one thing you never argue with is your own pain.
O, my soul…forget not His benefits!
I recall my experience weeks after my dad died. I wrestled with so many thoughts and gratitude was hard to come by. Anger, frustration, and grief all threatened to consume me. At that point, no memory of God’s past faithfulness seemed strong enough to inspire me to move past my pain and acknowledge His goodness.
This is what pain does. Some say that the ultimate reality is pain and there is some truth to this statement. You may question many things but one thing you never argue with is your own pain.
At that moment your pain is very real to you. It is so real that it can incapacitate you to the point where you ignore everything else but its presence.
Problems and difficult situations have a tendency of clouding our minds. At such moments, it is nigh impossible to remember or even appreciate testimonies of God’s goodness.
That’s why, like the Psalmist, we must constantly implore our souls to:
“…forget not all His benefits.”
Comment & Share
Feel free to drop a comment
if you have any and
please don’t forget to share
if this helped you.