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welfare in His hands. They do not feel they must protect their own interests. They are

confident of God’s care for them. With Job, they can say, “Though He slay me, yet will I
trust Him” (Job 13:15).

The children of Israel in the wilderness could not make this good confession. Instead,
they confessed just the opposite. They asked God if He had led them into the wilderness just

to kill them. They asked Him if it was because there weren’t enough graves in Egypt that He
had led them to the wilderness to bury them there (Exodus 14:11). Such taunting and lack

of trust angered God, and because of it He swore that they would not enter into the land of
promise.

This matter of trust is of utmost importance and it is in the wilderness that it is
proven. God is looking for faith in the hearts of His children. Yahshua asked the question,

“when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth" (Luke 18:8)? Likewise, we are
told,

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him

must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

Once salvation is received by an act of faith, this faith being a free gift (Ephesians

2:8), God then expects the saint to begin demonstrating trust in Him. The believer needs

no other proof of God’s good will toward Him than the cross of Christ.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever

believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The natural response of one who has received salvation should be to assert confidently
that he knows God loves Him. He loves him so much that He did not even withhold His own

Son, but freely gave Him up on our behalf. All saints should be able to assert with John, “I
am the disciple whom Yahshua loves.” Having this confidence, the saint will find himself

following Christ wherever He leads. For this reason, Satan works tirelessly to undermine
the saint’s confidence in Christ’s love toward him. The saint must remain vigilant against