LBW #453, "If You But Trust In God To Guide You"
Devotion
If you but trust in God to guide you
and place your confidence in him;
You’ll find him always there beside you,
to give you hope and strength within;
For those who trust God’s changeless love,
build on the rock that will not move. (v.1)
"In patient trust await his leisure,
in cheerful hope, with heart content;
To take whate’er your Father’s pleasure
and all discerning love have sent;
Doubt not your inmost wants are known
to him who chose you for his own." (v.3)
Authentic living begins not with defiance, not with self-confidence, but with surrender. The question is, to whom will I surrender? History itself is a witness that those who surrender to the God revealed so clearly in Jesus of Nazareth find abundant life. Authentic living begins in surrender.
Prayer
Grant to us, dear Lord, whatever it takes to surrender our lives into your arms. In Jesus' name, Amen.