Isaiah 26:4

Seeing that we have such a God to trust in, let us rest upon him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavor to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much diminish our comfort; since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust.

A loving parent would be deeply grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who never will. It would be well if doubting were banished from the household of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble these days as when the psalmist asked, “Is his mercy clean gone forever? Will he be favorable no more?”

David had not made any extensive trial of the mighty sword of the giant Goliath, and yet he said, “There is none like it.” He had tried it once in the hour of his youthful victory, and it had proved its true mettle, and therefore he praised it ever after; in the same way, we should speak well of our God, there is none like him in the heaven above or the earth beneath; “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.”

There is no rock like the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves being judges. So far from allowing doubts to live in our hearts, we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and slay them over the brook; and for a stream to kill them at, we will select the sacred torrent which flows forth from our Savior’s wounded side.

We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been placed in a situation where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Let us then be encouraged to trust in the Lord forever, assured that his everlasting strength will be, as it has been, our help and support.