He who trusts in the Lord, happy is he." In temporal things, if we learn to trust in God, we shall be happy. We are to trust God, acting in all prudence, and in all uprightness, we are to rely simply and entirely upon Him. My dear friends, let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things by these few advantages among a great many others. First, trusting in God, you will not have to mourn because you have used sinful means to grow rich.
What a mercy it is that when we can joy in nothing else, we can joy in God! Suppose I have nothing in the house but God? Suppose there is nothing for me to rely upon but God, nothing that I can call my own but God? But the Creator is the substantial All in All, so that he who has God has all that he can possibly need! God, to His people, is the fullness out of which all their needs shall be supplied.
This, then, is joying in God, first rejoicing that there is a God and then delighting in Him as our Father! When we once reach this point, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we rejoice in every attribute of God, we delight in Him as He is revealed. And God gives such a quietness in resting in the finished work of Jesus, and in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit that, imperfect as we are, we yet have power by His might to be raised up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
The glory of the Gospel is that in it, God is revealed as manifest in human flesh, all the Divine attributes are displayed in the Person of Emmanuel, God With Us. How sweet it is, at such a time, to fall back upon the eternal purposes of God in Christ Jesus! What are you to do in order that you may have Christ as your Savior? Why, as the hymn says, "Only trust Him, only trust Him, Only trust Him now!"