Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding is a verse found in Proverbs 3: 5.

What is your definition of trust? Trust and faith go hand in hand. We trust when we start our cars that the car will get us to our destination. Or when we sit in a chair, we trust and have faith that the chair will support our weight.

Currently, we are trusting God that our efforts to stay home will keep us from getting the Corona Virus. Currently, we are trusting that the food we have will last until the shelves are replenished.

We read about a famine in the land in Genesis, the first one is with Abraham in Genesis 12

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. Genesis 12:10.

With the shelves being empty in our grocery stores, it feels like there is a famine in the land. However, during this time, it was a shortage of grain which they used to make food.

Abraham is in our chapter 11 of Hebrews. His strengths were numerous, he cared for his family, he believed God, he shared with his nephew Lot, he saved his nephew Lot, he asked God to not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if there were any righteous living there, he loved his wife, he prayed for a child, he took his questions to God. Beloved, what do you know about Abraham?

His weakness is that he went outside God’s plan several times. He claimed that Sarah was his sister twice. She was technically his half-sister but he had married her so she was his wife.

Trust is in the bible 170 times. Abraham trusted God. There is one time that Abraham totally trusted God and that is when God asked him to sacrifice his Son. Abraham and Sarah had waited a long time for Issac. God had promised to make Abraham a great nation in Genesis 12,

“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.^[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”^{[b] Genesis 12: 2-3.}

And yet God asked Abraham to sacrifice this son. Abraham obeyed God and prepared to offer his son. He told Issac that God would provide the sacrifice. As he prepared, God saw Abraham’s heart of obedience and stopped the sacrifice.

Beloved, God does not give us a spirit of Fear, but a Spirit of power, love and a sound mind, we read this in 2 Timothy 1:6.

The same God that declared Abraham righteous is the God that is in charge today in the midst of this crisis that we are facing.

God is alive and well and He is on his throne.

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Beloved, the greatest command is to “Fear Not” It is in the Bible 82 times. So take heart beloved sister in Christ, God is with us and will not leave us or forsake us.

How are you combating fear?