Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 56:3

Verses 2-3.

1. Fears are common to all men, at one time or another.

2. Improper and inefficacious means of removing fear are often resorted to.

3. There is here suggested a true and effectual method of removing fear.  —Robert Morrison (1782-1834), in "A Parting Memorial."

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. Whensoever we are afraid of any evil, we are still to put our trust in God.

1. What is it to put our trust in God?

(a) To keep our hearts from desponding or sinking down under any fears.

(b) To comfort ourselves in God.

(c) To expect deliverance from him.

2. What is there in God we ought to put our trust in?

(a) In his promises.

(b) In his properties. His power, wisdom, justice, mercy, all sufficiency.

3. Why should we in all our fears put our trust in God?

(a) Because there is none else can secure us from our fears. Whereas,

(b) There are no fears but God can secure us from them, either by removing the thing feared, or by subduing the fear of the thing. Bishop Beveridge.