June 30

Those of us who grew up in Twentieth Century America, those of us who were born after World War II have felt secure in large part because we have been citizens of the greatest nation that’s ever existed on the planet. There has never been a military or economic powerhouse comparable to the United States.

But if we have placed our confidence in economic or military power, we have placed it in the wrong thing. In the first decade of the Twenty-first Century, we are seeing the fallacy of our misplaced trust. If our security is wrapped in the prowess of the United States of America, we are trembling at this juncture in time.

Those of us who believe in the Living God who inhabits eternity know that our confidence must be in Him alone. Nothing else will do. David expressed this level of faith when he emerged from the army of the people of God to take on the giant Goliath who none of Israel’s brave men dared to face. David was encouraged to wear the armor of King Saul, but he refused because he was unaccustomed to it (I Samuel 17:31-39).

David, the shepherd boy, knew he and the purposes of God would be better served if he faced the daunting foe with the weapons with which he was familiar—a slingshot and five smooth stones. We, too, need to be ‘comfortable’ with our weapon—the Word of God! If it is hidden in our hearts, when the enemy assails, we shall be able to say as did David, “All this assembly shall know the Lord saves…the battle is His” I Samuel 17:47.