Psalm 62:8
"Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him:"
To trust Him is to confide in, depend upon, and rest wholly in Who Christ is and in His promises. When you think of trust, you think about a person keeping their word. We know Him to be trustworthy, whatever the situation may be.
Proverbs 14:26 says, "...fear of the LORD is strong confidence:" This is not a fear of torment but an awe in the knowledge that, if we are His children, nothing can come against us except what He ordains for His Glory, which is for our good in Christ. Whether it be an emergency or a peaceful day, we are to trust Him.
So much religion is formality—going through the motions, "Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people drew near Me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men" (Isaiah 29:13). This legalistic fear is taught by false religion. But the LORD calls us to, "pour out your heart before Him." There is a trust that causes us to pour out all we are before Him without pretense. We continually confess who we are as sinners before Him because we know Him as a Merciful God for Christ's sake. "Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto Thy Name give glory, for Thy Mercy, and for Thy Truth's sake” (Psalm 115:1).
The term, "pour out your heart," is significant because in the Old Testament, drink offerings were poured out before the LORD upon the alter. This prayer is identified as a “pouring out of the heart,” just like the drink offering. It is always connected to the offering—the Sacrifice. God cannot hear a sinner apart from The Sacrifice of His Son, the LORD Jesus Christ. This prayer and confession before the LORD, is a pouring out of the heart before God, laying it open before Him, because of Him and the Sacrifice unto death of His Son, having born the sin away at Calvary.
Therefore, we are heard by the Holy God , sinful though we are, because of the Son’s redeeming, justifying death. Additionally, the Spirit of Christ is given to each elect, redeemed sinner to continue making intercession for each one: "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26).
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