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Trust God From My Youth Psalm 71:5



4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 5For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth



Life has its ups and downs. Many of those downs are the result of poor decisions that we have made in the past. When we trust the Lord, we put ourselves in a better position to avoid many of the poor decisions that affect our lives so pitifully. David prays that the Lord would deliver him and help him to escape and save him. He prays, "Be my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort." God wants to be our strong habitation. He wants us to lean on Him and build our lives on Him and His perfect will for our lives. When we are willing to do that and live our lives by His direction, He is able to deliver us from many of the troubles and the difficulties that surround us.

You see, not only can God correct whatever is wrong with our lives; He can help us avoid the pitfalls that are the result of decisions that we should not make in the first place. When we make the right choices, we do not have to suffer the consequences of bad decisions but enjoy the fruits of the good decisions. God is indeed our hope.

David writes, "For You are my hope, O Lord God; Thou art my trust from my youth." David knew the Lord from his youth up. While he walked with the Lord and he was a man after God's own heart, David made some terrible mistakes in his life. However, it was what he learned about God in his youth that proved to be the answer to the problems that he faced. The foundation that the Lord can build our lives on does work. Sometimes, the road may seem rough and rocky. It may seem that there is no way out for a situation that we may be facing but what we learned from our youth up about God will make a difference in our lives and the lives of our children.

The sooner we make God our hope, the sooner we will find life really worth the living and full and meaningful to us and to those that we love and care for so much. We need to trust God today. Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. We need to live it for the Lord and His pleasure, which becomes our pleasure!