Where Is Your Trust?

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.” – Psalm 20:7

I know that it is not even spring, but some folks have summer on their minds already.

When it arrives, it will bring summer camp for the young and camping for families. If not camp and camping, perhaps, there will be fishing, hiking, strolling through the park, picnics, or some other outdoor activity. If not these, maybe yard work will fill your days.

Whatever it is, it may present a challenge that stretches you and tempts you to rely upon your own strength, ingenuity, and fortitude.

The difference between God’s anointed and the self-appointed is a matter of trust.

We may feel infinitely competent for every task. However, do not need more insight, as Brennan Manning has noted in “Ruthless Trust,” but more trust.

We need to recklessly abandon our lives to God with such radical displacement of self and fleshly confidence that we will sink, or swim based only upon God’s truth, love, and faithfulness.

It is the call of the Christian to climb as far out on a limb with God as possible and then, to live there in an ever-deepening reliance upon Him and Him alone.

Psalm 20:8 says, “They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.”

Those who trust in the weapons and schemes of man are ultimately frustrated in every human effort. Often, the contrast is most pronounced in times of crisis, grief, or hardship as the summer sun of difficulty beats down upon them.

The countenance of the worldly falls with the loss of position, strength, prosperity, or self-confidence. The godly, though battered, bruised, broken, and besieged, will rise and stand firm. Grief and sorrow befall every soul, but “that soul who on Jesus hath leaned for repose …” God “… will never, no, never desert to his foes.”

Psalm 20:9 reminds us to pray for help in dependent trust, “O LORD, save the king! Answerus when we call!”

As Israel prayed for their king, let us also pray for ourselves.

Help, LORD!