Where Is YOUR Trust?

February 3

Prayer. It is said that the most powerful force on the earth is the power of prayer. A seasoned military man, who had led a victorious army and commanded millions of dollars worth of war materials once said, “The only true power on earth is that of the Almighty.”

We tend to put our security in the weapons in our nations' arsenals as well as in the people who control them. Our trust is misplaced. David, Israel’s mighty warrior-king said in Psalm 20:7, “Some trust in chariots and horses (the super weapons of their day) but we shall trust in the name of the Lord our God.”

One famous quip of Ronald Reagan, our most quotable president was, “If America stops being ‘one nation under God,’ America will become a nation gone under.” His words seem quite prophetic in the dire societal and military and economic times in which we find ourselves. We seem surrounded on every side by forces that signal impending doom for our nation and our way of life. Instead of capitulating to the mismanagement of corrupt politicians who are undermining America from within, and quaking at the thought of a nuclear Iran that wants nothing less than to destroy us from without, or surrendering to global companies that take the wealth they’ve earned in America and invest it in jobs overseas, let us instead, “Call unto God…who will give ear to my prayer,” Psalm 17:6, and pray that He heal our land.

Let us be like David; let us place our trust in the Living and Eternal God who "brings down one and sets up another" (Psalm 75:7). Let us recognize that temporal authorities and powers-that-be are mere, fallible men who can't even take their next breath if the Lord our God does not allow them to do so. Let us acknowledge as does the prophet in Isaiah 51:12, 13 "...who are you that you should be afraid of a man that shall die and the son of man which shall be as the grass and forget the Lord your Maker that stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth..." Let us put our trust in Jesus alone. If He loved us enough to die for us, let us love Him enough to live for Him and trust Him for every concern of time and eternity.