Good Morning Friends,
“Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the
great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or
seek help from the LORD. Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not
take back his words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked, against
those who help evildoers. But the Egyptians are men and not God; their horses
are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, he who helps
will stumble, he who is helped will fall; both will perish together. This is
what the LORD says to me: ‘As a lion growls, a great lion over his prey -- and
though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not
frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor -- so the LORD Almighty
will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights. Like birds
hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it
and deliver it, he will 'pass over' it and will rescue it.’ Return to him you
have so greatly revolted against, O Israelites.” (Isaiah 31:1-6)
We have our financial advisers who can make sure
that our future is secure. We have our doctors with their insightful tests and
powerful drugs and equipment, we trust them to keep us healthy. Our national
military forces are the most powerful in the world and are armed with weapons
of destruction and defense that are unparalleled.
We are secure and so is our future!
But that’s really not true. Not if those are
the counselors upon whom we rely, whose wisdom we trust. They are like noisy
children when compared to the wisdom and power of the Lord. He is the One to
trust, the only one to rely upon for security!
Financial advisers, doctors, military forces,
they are not wrong to have. But they are wrong to put our trust in. God can use
them as His tools to help us, but it is God we need to trust, it is Him we need
to look to for the present and for the future.
We are secure and so is our future! True, but
not because of what we have done to make it so. We are secure only as we trust
in God.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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