Trusting God in Times of Trial

If it was a proud thing before to think of myself highly when God said I in fact was a sinner, how much more is it false humility now, after salvation, to think of myself still as a sinner when God says He has made me in fact a new creature!

God has given us many things with which to wage "a good warfare" against worry and self-pity. Consider the needs you could meet in others' lives. Consider the spiritual gift he has given you.  Consider the trustworthiness of His Word.

Do you love your wife and children? Do you feel sometimes that they doubt your love? Stop for a minute and examine, perhaps in a new way, how God feels when we second guess His love as the heavenly Father. It's for our own good that He shepherds us and shows us something better than our own way.

The old adage "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own understanding" carries tremendous weight for a New Testament Christian. As believers, do we believe what God says is true about who we are? Have we or have we not been made the very righteousness of God in Christ?