Never taken a little while to try to think about all that
God did in his providence to cause you to hear the gospel
and believe on his son. All the wonders, the intricate
details, the minute and the great works of God in providence by
which he graciously brought you to hear the gospel and called
you to be prepared in your life at that time to hear the gospel
of his grace and believe on his side. That is more the constant study
of my life these days than it has ever been. The wonder, the
mystery of God's providence. The title of my message tonight
is Only the Righteous, Only the Wise. You'll find my text in
the 107th Psalm. Only the Righteous and Only the
Wise. In this Psalm, God the Holy Spirit
inspired David to give us an allegorical picture of the way
God saves his elect. Now you know what an allegory
is, but let me remind you, it's a parable. It is a story, an
illustration, no more than that. Sometimes the allegory is taken
from a literal fact in history. Sometimes it is altogether fictional.
but it is intended to teach a spiritual heavenly truth. Parables, as
they're given in the New Testament, are allegories. Our Lord's parables
were all allegories, earthly stories to illustrate something
spiritual and heavenly. In the fourth chapter of Galatians,
The Apostle Paul uses the history of Sarah and Hagar, of Isaac
and Ishmael, to give us an allegory. He plainly states that's what
it is, an allegory. It was an actual historical fact
that he uses, but it's an allegory God ordained and God brought
to pass to give us a picture of God's saving grace and of
the believers' absolute freedom from the law. In Luke chapter
16, Our Lord Jesus used a fictional story of the rich man and Lazarus
to illustrate life and death of the wicked and the life and
death of the righteous. Here in the Psalms in Psalm 105,
David uses the story of Israel's history and traces it from Abraham
to Canaan as an allegory of the salvation of God's people. In
the 106th Psalm, he then tells us why God saves sinners. He saves them for his namesake. The reason God's gracious is
for his glory, for his namesake. And then here in the 107th Psalm,
we have an allegorical picture of the way God saves his elect. And he describes for us the wonders
of God's providence. Four times we're told, look at
verse eight. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness
and for his wonderful works to the children of men. And as we
read those things to which it refers, you would think looking
at those things, how can you call this goodness? How can you
call this wonderful works to the children of men? Down in
verse 15, we're given the same admonition again. All that men
would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful
works to the children of men and again those things immediately
preceding How can we call those goodness of God and wonderful
works of God verse 21? All that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children
of men again the preceding things that he's talking about We'd
look at it and say, that's anything but goodness. That's anything
but wonderful works. Verse 31, oh, that men would
praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to
the children of men. Four times, four times in precisely
the same words, we're called by God the Holy Spirit to praise
God for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children
of men. His goodness being displayed
in the wonderful works of His providence. In the wonderful
works of His providence. Now the world will never understand
this. Religious folks who don't know
God will never understand this. But look what it says in verse
42. The righteous shall see it and rejoice. and all iniquity
shall stop her mouth. Whoso is wise and will observe
these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness
of the Lord. Only the righteous, only the
wise. Anyone can read this book. Anyone can read the Word of God.
If you can read, you can read this book. But no one can understand
it. No one can understand it. No
one can understand anything written in this book. No one can understand
the intent of anything written in this book. No one can understand
anything God says in his word as God intends it. except to
be taught of God, made righteous and wise by the new birth, born
again by God's Spirit. Then those who are born again
see and enter into the kingdom of God and have the mind of Christ
and understand all things. Only the righteous, only the
wise. Now as I go through this psalm
this evening, I pray that God will be pleased to open our hearts
and give us understanding in his goodness and in his wonderful
works of providence. Providence is God's universal
government of all things. God's universal government of
all things, of all creatures, of all events, of all men, of
all angels, of all devils, of righteous men and wicked men. Providence is God's universal
government of all things. Now there is a general providence
and a special providence. General providence being the
fact that God governs the universe, everything in it. He causes it
to rain on the righteous and the wicked. He causes the sun
to shine on the righteous and the wicked. He sends judgments
in the earth and both the righteous, his elect, and the wicked, the
reprobate, feel and experience those judgments in the earth.
God's general providence. We do not in any way let us never
give a thought to accepting the idea of accident or luck or misfortune
or anything of the kind. We do not believe in laws of
nature. We believe God. We trust God
who rules the universe. What men call laws of nature
are but the decree of God being executed. The reason we have
a law of gravity is because God fixed it. The reason the sun
is hot and the sky is dark at night is because God fixed it. The reason it rains in the summertime
and snows in the wintertime is because God fixed it. And nothing's
going to change God's decree and God's purpose. Forget all
the nonsense and it is absolutely Nonsense that men have and promote
concerning how this world is going to be destroyed by men
when the world is finished with its purpose When God has accomplished
his purpose in this universe God's going to burn it up Read
the book of God. It doesn't really matter how
he does it does it? It doesn't really matter whether
he does it with a bolt of lightning or a volcano that erupts and
covers the whole earth, or he does it with you using too much
airspray. When God gets done, he's going
to burn this world up and make all things new. We worship God,
not nature. We worship God, not the laws
of nature. We worship God, not Lady Luck. We worship God who rules everything,
all the time, everywhere. But then there is God's special
providence. His special providence. God's
special providence is the intent of his providence, the intent
of what he does to save his people. We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the
called according to his purpose. To other things don't just turn
out for good. God works them that way. You got that? God works them
that way. That includes everything. When
God gets done, Meryl Hart, we're going to see clearly how the
fall of Lucifer from heaven was good for us. and how our fallen
Adam was good for us, and how all the days of our lives of
rebellion were good for us, and all the pain and sorrow and heartache
we experience in this world has been good for us. This is God's
special providence. He works all things together
for the saving of his elect. Now get this if you can. Oh,
God, help me to get it. Oh, Pastor, God helped me to
get this. If you're a believer, if you
trust the Lord Jesus Christ, if you're a child of God, the
God of glory has, from the beginning of time, arranged and brought
to pass everything in the world for you. everything We sometimes cry like
Jacob all these things against me. Oh, they're all for me They're
off and if God before us who can be against us? God's special
providence is that Purpose of God in the accomplishment of
all things for the saving of his people Listen to what God
says. I am the Lord by God the Holy
One of Israel Thy Savior, I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia
and Saba for thee. Since thou was precious in my
sight, thou has been honorable and I have loved thee. Therefore,
will I give men for thee and people for thy life. Truly, God's
ways are not our ways and God's thoughts are not our thoughts.
This 107th psalm magnifies the triune Jehovah for his spiritual
blessings of which temporal blessings are but types and pictures. In
Pilgrim's Progress, we read about the interpreter's house. The
pilgrim was told that he would see excellent and profitable
things in interpreter's house. Well, this psalm is like interpreter's
house. Truly, if the Lord will give
us eyes to see and ears to hear, we will see and hear excellent
things in these 43 verses. Hold your Bibles open here and
let's look at it together. First, we are called upon to
extol and give thanks to God for his goodness. Oh, give thanks
unto the Lord for he is good. He is good. For his mercy endureth
forever. David is here speaking to God's
people. We who have been gathered by
his grace from among the heathen ought to extol the Lord God for
his goodness to us and give thanks to him continually. God's goodness. His very name, God, is but an
abbreviation of the word good. Now understand this. Understand
this. God help us to understand this.
God is good. God is good. God is good. Whatever God does is right. Don't stoop into the horrible
pit into which many fall. judging God's goodness by what
you feel and see and experience. How can we say God's good when
this person died without faith, when this person's lost in false
religion, when this person lived and died in drunkenness and filth
and degradation? How can you call that goodness?
God is good no matter what he does with you or me or anybody
else. What God does with you and yours
and what God does with me and mine in time and eternity is
right. Understand that. Understand that
God is good. Give thanks to God for his goodness. All temporal goodness, all spiritual
goodness, all eternal goodness comes from God who is good and
his mercy Endures forever all his mercy His mercy eternal mercy
covenant mercy redeeming mercy forgiving mercy Preserving mercy
his providential mercy is regenerating mercy is keeping mercy Who should
give thanks to him that the redeemed of the Lord say so? whom he hath
redeemed from the hand of the enemy and gathered them out of
the lands from the east and from the west and from the north and
from the south. Those who have experienced God's
grace in all parts of the world are under special constraint
here to give praise and thanks to him. In mercy and goodness,
the God of all grace has redeemed us with the precious blood of
Christ. Having redeemed us, he's gathered
us from the north and the south and the east and the west. Out
of every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue, God gathers his elect. He gathers them by the preaching
of the gospel and by the power of the spirit unto himself. Those
who are redeemed, he's redeemed us from the law by the price
of his blood. He's redeemed us from the dominion
of sin and Satan by the power of his grace. And he's redeemed
us from death by his resurrection from the dead. Another example
of God's goodness and mercy is his gathering us to Christ by
his effectual omnipotent power. He causes those, his sheep, who
have gone astray, who have turned everyone to his own way, to come
again to Christ. In the fullness of time, Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Blessed is
the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee. And those who are redeemed of
the Lord, he most assuredly will gather. He says, I will hiss,
I will call for them and gather them for I have redeemed them. You can be sure of this. All
who are chosen and redeemed, All those who are God's elect,
all Christ's sheep, all those for whom the Son of God shed
his precious blood, every one of them at the appointed time
of love, God will call by his grace and sweetly force them
to come to Christ. Sweetly force them to come to
Christ. Let the redeemed of the Lord
say so. We found him good and we must
say so. Is God good when he takes away
as well as when he gives? The redeemed of the Lord say
so. Is God merciful when he frowns as well as when he smiles? The
redeemed of the Lord say so. Does God work all things together
for good to them that love him? The redeemed of the Lord say
so. Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaim God's goodness. Spirit
of God, give me grace and give you grace. Never to call into
question God's wisdom, God's goodness, and God's grace. Never call into question God's
wisdom, God's goodness, and God's grace. What God does is good. All right, now look in verses
four through 32. This is the bulk of the psalm. Here we're
given four illustrations of God's special providence in the salvation
of his elect. The redeemed of the Lord say
that God is good and his mercy endures forever. Now the psalmist
displays that mercy and providence. Mark it down, children of God. God's mercy toward you did not
begin yesterday, and it did not begin when you believed. God's
mercy arranged all the affairs of your life in order to bring
you to faith in Christ and to keep you in faith by his grace. What the old timers used to call
prevenient grace is at least in part the grace of God in providence. Grace that precedes the grace
of salvation. the secret workings of God's
providence graciously to prepare the way for salvation to come. Sometimes God's good providence comes in dark, dark colors. Sometimes God's good providence
seems to be hard and rough. Sometimes God's good providence
appears to be Terribly evil in the eyes of men and in our eyes
but in providence God only does good The psalmist said he only
doeth wonderful things Amazing God only does wonderful things
He may in providence bring Gomer down to the lowest pit of degradation. And he may use Satan to bring
her down. He may, in his providence, cause
Odysseus to steal his master's goods and run away to Rome and
there be brought into prison and bring him down. And he may
use Satan and the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye
and the pride of the life to do it. But God's purpose in bringing
down his elect is to exalt them in due time. You see, before
God ever lifts up, he brings down. Before God ever exalts, he abases. Before God ever lifts high, he
lays low. He never does it the other way
around, never. You will not find any example
in this book or any example in history where God did it the
other way around. If God saves a sinner, he brings
the sinner down. God knows how to humble the proud,
both by his grace and by his word and by his providence. Let's look at what he said, shows
us. We were all lost, weary travelers in need of a guide to bring us
home. Lost in the wilderness of sin by reason of our own rebellion
and ignorance, like silly ignorant sheep, we went astray. We turned
everyone to his own way according to the bent of his own will and
wandered on in darkness. Look at verse four. They wandered
in the wilderness in a solitary way. They found no city to dwell
in. Wandered in the wilderness in
a solitary way, in a singular way, in a alone way. But God and his providence made
us hungry and thirsty. Hungry and thirsty, their soul
fainted in them. He's not talking about physical
hunger and physical thirst. He's not talking about physical
wonderings and a physical wilderness. He's talking about spiritual
things. God knows how to create dissatisfaction in a person's
heart. He knows how to make the prodigal
hungry and long for the food of his father's house. We found
ourselves in desperate need because God put us there. We found ourselves in desperate
need because God put us there and with no means of provision.
Then in time of soul's trouble, we call upon the Lord. Look at
verse six. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and
he delivered them in their distresses. When the awakened sinner is convinced
of sin. It's a time of trouble when he's
pricked in the heart with a sense of his sin. It's a time of trouble
when the terrors of death and hell get hold of a man. It's
a time of trouble when we see our lost and ruined, undone condition
ready to perish without God and without hope. It's a time of
trouble then. Then, when you can't do anything
else. When you can't do anything else,
when you've made your last shift, you've done the last thing you
can do by which you hope to improve your circumstances. When you
come to the end of yourself, then we're forced by God's grace
to call upon the Lord. Then the Lord God leads us to
Christ the way, our city of habitation. Look at verse seven. And he led
them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city
of habitation. All of this we owe to God's providence
and grace working together. Therefore, we'll praise him. Judgments of providence will
never bring repentance. Understand that. When the wicked
are cast into hell, they don't have any change of heart. Judgment
never brings repentance. But God's providence and his
grace work together for the good of his elect. And God brings
the wicked down, not just in providential experience, but
in his grace as well. It was grace that taught my heart
to fear and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear. the hour I first believed. Look
at verse eight. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children
of men. Wandering lost, poor, hungry,
thirsty souls brought to emptiness, reduced to begging, begging for
mercy, for he satisfied the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul
with goodness. Look at the next thing, verse
10. We were all prisoners in bondage and in sin. Satan and
the law, but Christ set us free. Such as sit in darkness, in the
shadow of death. You ever been there? In darkness,
with death in your throat. I'm not talking about physical
darkness and physical death. I'm talking about darkness in
your soul. A breath from hell. Being bound
in affliction and iron. Fast bound, unable to escape. How come? Because they rebelled
against the words of God and contempt, despised the counsel
of the Most High. Therefore, he brought down their
heart with labor. They fell down and there was
none to help. With one afflictive providence
after another, the haughtiness of man is laid low. I was a young man, strapping
and strong, had my way everywhere with everybody all the time by
force. Didn't fear anybody. until God
made me fear Him. Oh, how I thank God for making
my heart quake before Him. When a man is humbled under a
sense of sin, then he's willing to submit to Christ and His righteousness. Then the guilty sinner falls
down and pleads for mercy because he has no other hope. When I was in high school, there
was a fellow named Thurman Fain I used to run with before God
saved me. He and I got into stuff we got
into together. And then a few years after God
saved me, Thurman showed up at the church house and met a professional
faith. And somebody asked him, what
happened to you? He said, I sunk so low, I had nowhere else to go. And folks thought of him for
that. That's what happens to all the objects of God's grace. He brings you to utter emptiness
in yourself. And you have no one to whom you
can turn for help except him and his mercy. Look at verse
13. When the guilty, weary, helpless
sinner cries for mercy, the Lord sets him free. Then they cried
unto the Lord in their trouble. and he saved them out of their
distresses. He brought them out of darkness in the shadow of
death and break their bands and sunder. All of this we owe to
God's providence and grace. Therefore, we praise him for
it. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and
for his wonderful works. Wonderful works that strip and
empty and break and bow down and reduce to nothing. Wonderful
works that force a man in isolation in emptiness to cry to God His
wonderful works to the children of men For he hath broken the
gates of brass and cut asunder The bars of iron cut the bars
of iron asunder grace It is a charming sound harmonious to the air heaven
with the echo shall resound and all the earth shall hear a Allen
saying it a little bit ago grace first inscribed my name in God's
eternal book to his grace that gave me to the lamb who all my
sorrows took We were sin sick souls in need of a healing position
for 17 fools because of their transgression Fools Fools the
fool has said in his heart. There is no God fools because
of their transgression and because of their iniquities are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner
of meat. They draw near to the gates of
death. Then they cry to the Lord in
their trouble and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent
his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions. Sin had made fools of us all.
In our sin and folly, we despised the good word of God and Christ,
the bread of life, was rejected by us. We were famishing and
ready to die by reason of our iniquity. When we were at the
point of death, we called on the Lord and he, sending his
word, the word of the gospel healed us. God sends his word for the healing
of the nations. And all of this we owe to his
good providence. Verse 21. Oh, that men would
praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to
the children of men. Let them sacrifice the sacrifices
of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoicing. And then
in verse 23, He gives us this fourth picture. We were all like
seamen on the raging sea, ready to perish until God intervened
and saved us by his grace and gave us peace. Verse 23, they
that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,
deep waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in
the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth
the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount
up to heaven, they go down again to the depths. Their soul is
melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger
like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry
unto the Lord in their troubles, and he brings them out of their
distresses. He maketh the storm a calm. so that the waves thereof
are still. Those things that terrified the
fear of death and judgment and hell, our sins, our transgressions,
God's broken law, God's demand for satisfaction. Those things
that terrified suddenly are still and quiet and calm. Then are
they glad because they be quiet. So he bringeth them to their
desired haven. God brings us into the depths so that we might learn what Jonah
learned in the belly of the hell. Salvation is of the Lord. Look at verse 31. Oh, that men
would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful
works to the children of men. Let them exalt him also in the
congregation. Let them exalt him also in the
congregation of the people. and praise him in the assembly
of the elders. This is God's goodness and God's
wonderful work. He causes the lost to hunger
and thirst. Then he brings them to Christ
and satisfies their need. He causes the prisoner's heart
to be heavy. Then he brings him to Christ
and sets him free. He causes sin-sick souls to feel
their desperate sickness. Then he sends the great physician
and heals them. He causes the rebel soul to melt
in submission and gives him peace. Now, look at verse 32, or 33,
down through verse 42, and see how God explains his providence.
Here we're given insight into the mystery of providence. The
mystery of God's providence and grace is explained by David as
he's inspired by God, the Holy Spirit, telling us how God deals
with individuals to bring them to saving faith in Christ. And
he goes deeper into the mystery, showing us how God arranges the
affairs of princes and nobles and nations for the salvation
of his people. Verse 33, he turneth the rivers into a wilderness and water springs
into a dry ground. A fruitful land in the barrenness
for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. He turneth the
wilderness into a standing water and the dry ground into water
springs. What's that talking about? Now
remember, we're dealing with allegory. We're dealing with
allegory. God takes the gospel from one
town or community or nation and gives it to another. That's what
Romans chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 are all about. God gave the
gospel to Israel alone as a nation. Imagine that. Now imagine that.
All the rest of the world was in darkness. All the rest of
the world worshiped stocks and rocks and trees and imaginary
beasts and imaginary gods made from their own carnal imagination.
All the rest of the world filled with ungodliness. God sent his
word, his prophets, his tabernacle, his temple, his priesthood, his
sacrifices, his holy days, all the ceremonies of the law only
to Israel. and they despised his word and
God cast them off that he might send the gospel into the four
corners of the earth and gather his elect. Oh, the wonder of
God's providence. He still does the same thing. When a land is left barren without
a gospel witness, it's always because they despise God's goodness. When a land of darkness and ignorance
is given the light of the gospel, it's because God has a people
in that land whom he intends to save. One of the wonders of
God's providence, I contemplate a lot, as you may as well, is
this work God's given us through the internet so that we can carry
the gospel into the darkest corners of the world. And folks in the
darkest corners of the world are listening. In the darkest corners of the
world. Our Lord said before the end
comes, this gospel will be preached among all nations. Maybe this
is one means by which he does so. But this you can be sure
of. When God sends the gospel somewhere,
it's because he has a people whom he intends to save. how
often history has proved what we just read. God said, Ephraim
is joined to his idols. Let him alone. Israel despised
the gospel, so Jerusalem was left desolate. Rome once flourished
in the gospel. There were some believers at
Rome, Mark, to whom the epistle of Romans was written. The most
profound, most theologically precise of all the writings of
the word of God found in the book of Romans. There was a church
there to whom Paul wrote that book. There was a flourishing
church. No more. No more. Ethiopia was
once the place on the globe where the gospel was preached and sent
into all the world. Now, it's perhaps the darkest
of all lands. But God's not without a witness.
He opened the borders of England and then America and then Canada.
And the gospel flourishes now in the land of barrenness. Why
do you suppose Why do you suppose God arranged things to be so
rough in Great Britain that there were some folks willing to take
up, pull up roots, and take what little they could gather with
them and sail across the ocean in tiny little boats. They weren't luxury liners, they
were tiny little boats. Sail across the ocean into a
land of heathen darkness where life was fragile at best and
most likely they could not survive one generation to the other.
Why would God arrange it? Was it just so England could
get more colonies? No, no. It was because God Almighty
would prepare a place for you and me to hear the gospel. God raised up the nation to prepare
a place for you and me to hear the gospel. He makes the hungry
and thirsty soul to dwell in a land where the gospel is preached. Look at verse 36. There. There he maketh the hungry to
dwell, that they may prepare a city of habitation, and sow
the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield the fruits of
increase. He blesseth them also, so that
they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle
to decrease. Again they are minished and brought
low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. He pours contempt
upon the princes and causes them to wander in the wilderness where
there is no way. Those whom God intends to save,
he puts in a place where they'll hear the gospel. He sows the
seed in a land by his servants. He plants his churches as vineyards
in that land. He gives fruit and increase. I don't often say this to people,
but I think maybe it ought to be said more often. When you
meet your neighbors, it might be a good idea to tell them,
do you understand how greatly blessed you are? God has planted
a gospel church in a rock through your house. God has established
a gospel witness where you can hear the words of life. God has
sent a messenger among you. Oh, what a marvelous blessing
of God's providence. But then, because of sin and
unbelief, by an act of providence, those places where once the gospel
flourished are diminished and his people are scattered. Where
are the flourishing churches now of Jerusalem, Asia, and Rome? They've long since been scattered.
As you know, I travel and have for several years now two or
three times a year to Great Britain. And I never start for Great Britain
or drive through the cities and various villages communities
in Great Britain, but what I don't see, a name of a town where once
there was a man who God caused his voice to be heard
and thousands heard the gospel of God's grace were converted.
And now in those very places, nothing. Oh, the church buildings
still stand. The Europeans don't tear down
anything. Their church is going to still stand. Do you know where
John Bunyan pastored in Bedford Rex? There's a woman pastoring
there now. Where James Hervey pastored,
there's a woman preaching there now. And if you talk to them
about grace, they'd look at you like you're talking about Martians
somewhere. Don't have any idea what you're talking about. God
gives light and God gives darkness. And when God sends darkness,
how great is that darkness? For a season, the word prospers
and furnishes, but then because of sin and unbelief, God takes
it away. But these things you can be sure
of. Look at verse 41. God will save his own. Verse
42, the righteous will see the wonderful works of God. and rejoice. Verse 42, again, the wicked will
be without excuse. Now, here's the fourth thing.
In verse 43, we're exhorted to observe the loving kindness of
God in his providence. Whoso is wise and will observe
these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness
of the Lord. This I say to you who are my
brothers and sisters in Christ, all things are yours. Whether
the world or life or death or things present or things to come,
all are yours and you're Christ and Christ is God's. Whatever
God does, he does because of his loving kindness
to you. Whatever God does, he does because
of his loving kindness to you. Now I know some of you carry
heavy burdens. I know we will, if God leaves
us here a while longer, have more dark days and rough times
that we must face. We will pass through deep waters
and we will be put through fiery furnaces. Know this, whatever
God does, he does for you. Now I ask you, child of God,
if God has given nations for you, people for your life. Don't you suppose it's most reasonable
that we should trust him day by day with everything. He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Oh my God, my Father, Teach us
to trust you. Amen.