Praise the Lord!
How blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who greatly delights in His commandments.
Trusting God, based solely on His Word should be the easiest thing a believer does. God is a perfect God and holy and just in all He does. He never lies and ALWAYS fulfills His Word. Therefore, to trust His Word in the midst of darkness and despair should not be a difficult thing to accomplish. But, it is!! We question whether He will come through. Our flesh doubts His veracity. Our flesh wants what it wants and the principles and details of God's Word sometimes gets in the way. But, in the above passage we read the great thing that will happen when we totally trust in God's Word ... We are blessed and our children after us. When we fear The Lord and delight ourselves in His commandments, we are blessed by God. That is a God's promise to us. That blessing doesn't mean that God will keep all harm away, prevent persecution, or cause us to be "happy" all the days of our lives. Daniel, Jeremiah, and Paul would all point to the many tough times in their lives to show us otherwise. God's Word also tells us that we will have tribulation, persecution and trails. All of these are planned by God and He guides us through them. He sustains us in the them. He sets the limits for them. We can rejoice in God's Word that it is always okay. Let's remember His blessing as a result of trusting His perfect fulfillment of all His Word. "How blessed ..." is the mantra we are given to believe and hold on to for hope.
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