“Do not let your heart be troubled; You believe in God, believe also in Me.”-{John 14:1}
“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled…” The word “troubled” means “to be agitated, perplexed or put in a state of great confusion.” The disciples were under great emotional pressure … Note He Does not say “I will keep your heart from being agitated…BUT…. “LET NOT Your heart…” The emphasis was on the disciples not allowing their hearts be agitated…
BUT, HOW?
Their world is about to cave in it seems, and He comforts them with what was to be His last message to them before He died. He calls them to Trust Him.
WHAT WAS HAPPENING? Upon been told He was to be betrayed,taken away crucified…. they panicked. BUT THEY HAD FORGOT TO REMEMBER He had told them previously this would happen and He would RISE AGAIN! Like us the circumstances, the THOUGHT of what might be… the Future dread… looking at it apart from Him. FORGETTING TO REMEMBER HIS WORD brought an agitated heart of agitation, confusion, great perplexity.
They took their eyes of trust off Him, forgot to remember what He had said, and viewed the future without Him! And the result? Their hearts were CONTINUALLY TROUBLED!{Is the way it is grammatically.} Unless we trust we will be troubled!
HIS ANSWER? Himself! It always is! He brought then back to Himself and tells them to “STOP ALLOWING your hearts to be agitated any longer…”
BECAUSE THERE IS TROUBLE ON THE OUTSIDE DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO ALLOW TROUBLE ON THE INSIDE!
Think about it, He says YOU have the power to say NO I will not allow my heart to be agitated, perplexed, put into a state of confusion! So many of us believe we are helpless to stop the inward turmoil, stress, but He tells them to stop it…
But HOW? His Answer is HIMSELF AND TO TRUST, KEEP ON TRUSTING Him… AND
Continually Trust My Presence with you. {v1}
Continually Trust My Promises for you. {v2}.
Continually Trust Me- The Person. {v6}
“But as they sat astounded and perplexed, He continues, Let not your heart be tossed and agitated like water driven by winds;” { cf. Liddell and S. and Thayer.}
“He not only commands them to dismiss their agitation, but gives them reason:
“Trust God, yea, trust me.” Trust Him who overrules all events, He will bring you through this crisis for which you feel yourselves incompetent; or if in your present circumstances that faith is too difficult, trust me whom you see and know and whose word you cannot doubt.”-{John Marcus Dods.}
“KEEP TRUSTING ME.”- When all looked lost, His words “KEEP TRUSTING ME,” were still relevant and to be EXERCISED.
When He died His words, “TRUST ME,” Were still to be in action. As the day went by, night time, the following morning and night, “TRUST ME,” would still be called for. They locked themselves away, afraid of the crowds, “TRUST ME,” would STILL be His call to them. On the third day He arose from the dead and appeared to them in their locked room. He appeared! He could have said, “What did I tell you?” “Trust Me!” His words “TRUST ME,” would be as relevant when they saw Him as when they saw Him die. What an occasion that had to be when they saw Him raised from the dead. Victorious, keeping His promise, defeating the grave, satan and coming back to see them, be with them, just as He said. “Trust Me!”
UNBELIEF FOCUS’S ON CIRCUMSTANCES AND RESTS IN FEELINGS.
FAITH FOCUS’S ON JESUS AND RESTS IN HIM AND HIS PROMISES!
“TRUST ME” is not based on sight, circumstances, feelings, but IN the ONE who said to “CONTINUALLY TRUST ME!” No longer let your hearts be distressed,perplexed,confused, troubled any longer, TRUST JESUS- He is trustworthy!