When I am afraid, 

I will trust in you.

Psalms 56:3 CSB 

David was on the run literally running for his life.

And he was afraid.

Afraid of Saul.

Then he wandered into Philistine territory and that was no better.

He was afraid 

"When I am afraid

I will trust in you"

Who is it that David trusts?

In God, whose word I praise, 

in God I trust; 

I will not be afraid.

Psalms 56:4 CSB

I put my trust in me. 

But I do have someone bigger to put my trust in, someone without my weaknesses.

David was afraid of those in pursuit of him, afraid of dying.

Sometimes we can get afraid of living.

It's too much.

The future seems too uncertain.

Hope seems hard to grasp 

"When I am afraid

I will trust in you"

I tend to look inward. To my own resources.

But David calls us to look outside of ourselves, to look up.

What are you afraid of?

When I am afraid

I will trust in You.

Yahweh.

I will trust in our God who in Jesus, became small, as a servant, to seek and to save us, us who are outcast and lost.

I trust in the One who made a way, became the way.

When I am afraid

I will trust in You.

#sobeit

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