Psalm 119:138

Psalm 119:138 “The statutes You have laid down are righteous; they are fully trustworthy.”
 

Continuing on the same theme from the previous verse, David now declares that even that statutes of God are trustworthy. They are worthy of our trust. A statute is a law laid down, there is no wavering in our obedience to it. The good news is that the statutes are fully trustworthy. It is nice to know that since God has made a statute as something that must be obeyed, He also reassures us that they can be fully trusted.
 

God is asking nothing more of us than to put our lives in His hands. To put our life in the hands of God is more than just going to church, reading our Bible, and praying once in a while. We are being asked to give up the control we are used to having. We try to maintain control over our lives through things like savings accounts and insurance policies. Though there is nothing wrong with either of those things, they aren’t nearly as trustworthy as the statutes of God. When our trust is in temporal things, there is no security in our life even though we have those things for the sake of security.
 

George Muller was a great man of faith who built several orphanages without ever asking anyone but God for financial help. Late in his life, he was asked once by a young preacher how much he was worth. The young preacher assumed this man of faith must have acquired much in all his years of service to God. 

Muller was quite disturbed at this, so he reached into his pocket and pulled out a coin purse. Inside were a few meager coins. He looked up and said, “Young man, this is all that I possess in the entire world. My trust is not in this, but in my God.” George Muller was in his nineties at the time, without even the means for retirement, yet he lived with no uncertainty about his future.     
 

I encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse; ask yourself if you really believe you can trust your life to God’s statutes.  Continued