♪ TRUST ME NOW! ♫

I recently came across the original sheet music that Piper and I used for one of the songs we sang together in the Rock Opera that I wrote back in 1972.  Piper and I did not act in the performance, but she and some of my former rock band members provided the music for the production of which I directed.  I also played my trusty Kawai electric guitar* and shared the mike with Piper for the intro song that I wrote, and the beautiful tune based on Psalm 37 entitled “Trust Me Now” which was written by another favorite of my early Christian experience song writers, Ralph Carmichael.

Looking over the lyrics to “Trust Me Now” and remembering the intensity in which we joined our voices together… way back then after we had only been dating for a little over a year… makes me realize what a prophetic voice that song became for our lives over the next 47 years that we shared together. 

The Psalm from which the song was written, talks of the benefits of an individual… or in our case, a couple… who puts their lives and total trust in the hands of the Lord.  It speaks of the personal trials and tribulations that we all go through in our lives, of the mental torments we face and fight, and of the questions we cry out to the Lord.  It then concludes with a buildup in the musical score as the Lord cries to the heart of the individual and implores them, saying with passion… that even though you “Say you’re nobody… I LOVE YOU!”**

I discovered a similar line of thought this morning, as I read I Timothy 4:15 in The Passion Translation, where the Apostle Paul is encouraging his son in the Lord Timothy concerning his personal faith walk and lovingly tells him to:

“Make all of this (everything previous to this verse in I Timothy) your constant meditation and MAKE IT REAL with your life so everyone can see that you are moving forward.” 

Paul, just like the psalmist, is appealing to his young protégé, to make his personal relationship and therefore his faith in Jesus Christ and the truth of His word to be REAL in his life.  He’s telling Timothy to make the things that he believes and stands for in his daily walk to be a vital and inseparable part of who he is. 

In the song “Trust Me Now” the Lord repeatedly tells us that as we deal with the ups and downs of life, to take and make personal, the heartfelt truth that “I LOVE YOU!”  Knowing without a doubt, that “I will never neglect you or abandon you.” (Joshua 1:5 – God’s Word ©)

And in I Timothy 4:15 Paul implores us to,

Make the Word of God to be “your constant meditation (ie; PRACTICE it) and to MAKE IT REAL with your life…” ***

It is easy for me to look back today and see how the simple words to that song “Trust Me Now” quickly became the standard for Piper’s and my life.  It still amazes me when people around me quickly respond with worry and or fear when circumstances go sideways before us.  It’s just not natural for me to think that way… That’s not to say that I have not been challenged to yield to the negative and highly questionable things I read in the mainstream media… but I’ve learned to STOP, take a breath and call to mind the much more truthful reporting that I find as I study in the Word of God!

My faith and the way I choose to see and respond to the world around me is thoroughly personalized and settled in the truth of God and His Word.  When difficult situations arise… Like the current upheaval and atrocities that have occurred against Israel in the Middle East, I choose to listen to the soothing voice of the Lord as He gently reminds me to “Trust Me Now!”

I walk in personal peace, for WHO HE IS and what He has promised me, can NOT be separated from me… within the course of my daily life…

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Have a terrific weekend as the wonderful Fall weather fills the air with dreams of pumpkin pie, warm fireplaces and family coming together for the holidays… and while you’re at it… Keep EXPECTING God’s Best… and then pass it on to someone else!

 

*This was pre-12 string guitar days!

**It also reminds me of the very last words that Piper spoke a few weeks before she passed, when she suddenly seemed to come out of the fog that had overtaken her, turned to look at me and with clear eyes and a smile said, “I LOVE YOU!”  She then smiled for a moment longer, turned her head and returned to the foggy state that she had been in… Isn’t God Good!

***The Passion Translation/God’s Word ©