Trust Through Knowledge August 28, 2014

¹⁰ And those who know your name put their trust in you,
    for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psalm 9:10 ESV 

Last year I saved up enough pennies to purchase a Werner MT telescoping multi-purpose ladder.  Love the bad boy!  Adjustable.  Functional.  Step ladder. Extension ladder.  A man's man ladder.  (Grunt, scratch, belch.)

There are other types of adjustable ladders out there, but I chose a Werner because of the reputation of the company.  Werner has been making ladders for over the past 60  years.
"On jobsites across America, Werner is preferred more than any brand because innovation, safety and durability are built into every product."  I trust Werner ladders because I have knowledge of them

I am not likely to purchase a ladder from the Slapstick Ladder Company or a ladder company owned by a chiropractic consortium.  It is my knowledge of Werner that allow me to trust their product when I am 20 feet in the air on one of their ladders.

In today's verse, David reminds us that our faith in God should be borne out of a knowledge of Him.  To blindly put your faith in a person or product is not wise and not likely to be a faith that will weather difficult times.

The deepening of ones relationship with God will  only serve to strengthen the faith in Him.  The more we know Him, the more we trust Him.

Real trust comes out of a deep knowledge of the object of that trust.