Today's Passage: Psalm 146-147

If we took a survey of people all across the United States and asked, "In what do you put your trust the most?", we would get a variety of answers.  Some might say their spouse, their community, their retirement, their welfare check, or maybe even the government.  Psalm 146: 3 says, "Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save."  What is the one thing that the above list has in common?  They are all based on humans!  Even those of us who are Christians have a tremendously hard time putting our full, every day trust in God.  In Oswald Chambers' devotional "My Utmost for His Highest," he writes (May 31), "If I put my trust in human beings first, the end result will be my despair and hopelessness toward everyone.  I will become bitter because I have insisted that people be what no person can ever be-- absolutely perfect and right.  Never trust anything in yourself or in anyone else, except the grace of God."  My mom put it to me this way, "Everyone will fail you at some point, including your father and me.  God is the only One who will never fail you!"  That was vitally important for me to hear as a teenager who was quickly approaching college and independence. 

Why is it so easy to praise God at church on a weekly basis, but so hard to trust Him on a daily basis?  We praise Him because He is trustworthy in ALL things.  "The Lord delights in those who fear Him who put their hope in His unfailing love." Psalm 147:11