Oct 31- Psalm 9:10

Those who know your name trust in you,

for you, O Lord, have never abandoned

anyone who searches for you

Psalm 9:10

Do you know what a "trust fall" is? One person closes their eyes and falls backward, trusting the other person to catch them.

Have you ever seen sad and comical videos of this? The person who is falling is reluctant. They debate back-and-forth, "Can I trust the other person to catch me?" But they debate too long. Therefore, at precisely the moment that this hesitating person decides, "Yes, I will trust," the other person decides, "They're never going to do this," and they let down their hands and walk away. The result is a great fall!

Why do we laugh at such things?! (The Three Stooges and America's Funniest Home Videos made millions with this kind of humor.)

In your relationship with God, are you ever like the person who closes their eyes ... and then debates for hours (or weeks or years) ... as to whether to let go, fall backward, and trust in God to trust you or not.

That is what today's Psalm is all about. Scripture says, "Those who know your name trust in you." The question is: Do you really believe that "[the] Lord [will] never abandoned anyone who searches for [Him]"?

The hard part for many is that God doesn't have physical arms. We can't see him. We can't always feel him. But trusting faith "is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Faith grows as we learn to simply close our eyes and fall backward. It is practicing our trust in him. We can't see his hands and we can't always feel his arms, but the question is: Will we believe that "[the] Lord [will] never abandoned anyone who searches for [Him]"?

In Christ's Love,

a guy who has fallen enough

that he has had to learn to trust