The word shame is used in Psalms and Proverbs enough to catch our attention. If we view shame through our humanisitic, I am ashamed or I feel shame, or even I acted shamefully, as our only understanding of the word, we will miss what the word is speaking in context.

Praying Psalm 71 this morning, verse 1 says, “In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame.” I paused in my prayer because I thought how does putting our trust in the Lord cause us to never be put to shame? Questions unlock revelations, the more questions we ask the more revelations we will receive.

Shame in Hebrew in this Psalm means to pale; be disappointed; delayed; become dry; be long; confused; disconcerted.

I was surprised to say the least by this definition of shame, but in context of putting our trust in the Lord so we are not put to shame, it makes total sense. But I would have never defined shame as disappointment, delay, confusion or even being dry.

When this revelation unlocked for me the definition of shame, I realized our trust is in something other than the Lord if we are feeling like we are being delayed, we have become dry, we are confused or disconcerted. This is a hard truth to hear, but it is the truth.

Trust in the Lord alone is where we experience Him as the Fountain of Living Water, which is how we never are ashamed. Jeremiah 2:13 says, “My people have committed two sins, one they have forsaken Me the Fountain of Living Water and two they have hewn out broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

If we trust the Lord we will never be ashamed, for He is the Fountain of Living Water, He is the source of all life; He is the headwaters; He is the mouth of the river; He knows the timing; so there is no delay. He is the water so there is no drought. He is crystal clear so there is no confusion. He is eternity, so nothing is considered long to Him.

We might need to get a slight adjustment on where our trust is, for if our trust is in the Lord we will not be put to shame. (Psalm 71:1) Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org