Psalm 62:1-8

"Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved. How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, like a leaning wall and a tottering fense. They only consult to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strenth, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah."


One of my professors here at SBC, whom I have grown to love has been emphasizing this passage in my Spiritual Life class. He gave us some advice in regards to verses 1-2 and 5-8. "Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved." And again, "My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved, In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah." The key to a life of no disappointment and no anger, he says is to never trust anyone. WHAT?!? We spend our entire lives building trusts with the people we live and work and interact around. When you get a job, you trust that your employer will recognize the efforts you put in to that job. When a husband comes home from work in the evening, he trusts, or expects there will be food ready for him, or will be shortly. That's the key word: expect.
Verse 5 says that "For my expectation is from Him." In other words, we are not to place our trust in people. Psalm 146:3-4 explains that there is no help in man, for "his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." Therefore, we are to trust God through His people; God will use whom He needs for His will to be accomplished. Wives, when your husbands do not come home at their routine time and you become worried, it is because you have placed a false hope in your husband. As my professor put it, "you have trapped them within your expectations."
Now, returning to living a life without anger, this professor explained that by never having expectations of anyone but God, then there is no need for anger. You will never be disappointed in the outcome because you never expected one!
Now I understood what it meant to not place your trust in people. But how does one go about doing this?! It's harder than it sounds!!!
My challenge to you, as my professor urged my class to do, is to write down all the expectations you have of others in your life and from that, grow into placing those expectations on the Lord. Expect God's will to be done. Expect that He will take care of His children. Expect Him to use those around you to accomplish His will.
This will be my challenge this week, and hopefully for the remainder of my life. I hope that you will use this too to obtain an end result of glorifying God.