Trust in the LORD...

I was reading Psalm 37 last night, and couldn't get past the first few verses.

1: Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2: For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3: Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

We're not supposed to worry when we see the wicked prospering, but we are to Trust in the LORD. He will "keep us in the land" and we will be fed. What is the first thing that we do when we get bad news? "There's going to be some lay-offs, and you're going to be one of them!" I would suggest that our first inclination is to either start arguing about it and complain, or maybe we are bigger than that, and we just leave silently thinking about where we're going to go look for work next or to apply for unemployment or whatever... Or maybe the creditors are calling and you need to pay up and you don't know how you can - you start trying to figure out how to make more money... God tells us: Trust in the LORD!

Webster's 1611 Dictionary defines trust as: "1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person."

Wow!

• Trust in the LORD = Confidence in God's integrity, that is, in His consistency throughout, His faithfulness in everything.
• Trust in the LORD = Rest your mind on God's veracity. Rest, stay on His truthfulness in all that He says.
• Trust in the LORD = Rely on God's justice - know that what He does is right, and that He will work all things out together for good (if you love God, and are the called according to His purpose)
• Trust in the LORD = Rest your mind on God's friendship - He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?!!!

Psalm 34:8: O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.