Psalm 18:1-2 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

As I read this Psalm this morning I came to realize that the only part in which I have any control is in my will to love and my will to trust. Everything else is classified as a dependency. I can declare all the other things not because of who I am or what I have done, but rather who God is and what He has done.

As I think about it, love and trust have been provided by God but rather than a dependency they are reciprocal forces.

1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Psalm 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

In the end we are totally dependent upon God for everything and in return He asks only that we trust in the love that He has placed in us.

John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1 John 4:16-18 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.