Psalms 141:7 “Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. 8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.”
For our comfort and encouragement, the Psalmist often uses such phrases as, “in thee is my trust”. Trust is the direct benefit of our God-given “faith” (Hebrews 12:2). With this blessed faith-trust we can face whatever this cold-hard world throws at us and stand firm in our Lord’s service, even in the very midst of the greatest “calamities” (Psalms 141:5). To “trust” is to know for certain that our “GOD the Lord” will not forsake us, will “leave not” our “soul destitute”, even as “the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing” (Psalm 2:1). When it seems that the wickedness of this world is going to entirely ruin us, our “GOD the Lord” appears to remind us that He is our “friend that sticketh closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24). Paul said, concerning their trouble in “Asia”, “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:” (II Corinthians 1:9). Nothing or no-one is as trustworthy as reliable as our Lord; “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.” (Psalms 20:7).