Who Will You Trust?

February 3

The prophet asks a question in Isaiah 40:27 that is a pattern for many of our questions today, “Jacob, why do you say and Israel, why do you assert, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord and my claim is ignored by my God’?” Why this lament? Why this wrenching belief that God doesn’t see or care?

From the Garden the archenemy of God the enemy of the soul of man has been sowing the seed of doubt in the goodness and integrity of God. When he allured Eve with the forbidden fruit, he did so by suggesting that she hadn’t understood God’s admonition—“Indeed, hath God said?” Genesis 3:1.

Continuing today is his strategy of planting doubt within the bosom of an individual. The ploy is often two-pronged. First, the seed of doubt in God’s integrity is sown into a mind that is troubled with anxiety, then the suggestion is planted that God simply doesn’t care about the problem being faced.

Man is confronted with a very basic decision to make about God—either He is who HE says He is or He is who His ancient foe asserts that He is. Will a man trust the God who promises He will never fail him and never deceive him or will he trust the father of lies who hates God and hates people? Who will you trust?