In God I Trust

In God

(I will praise His word),

In the LORD

(I will praise His word),

In God I have put my trust.

Psalm 56:10-11, NKJV

Who can you trust these days? Is there anywhere to put your confidence? Where is the fulfillment of your hope? In what do you place your faith?

Either there is a God, or there is not. Either His Word, the Bible, is truth, or it is not. Either what He does is always good and right and just, or it's not. Either what He says is faithful and true, or it is not. Either I believe those things, or I do not. The choice is mine.

I've seen the world. You can't trust the words coming out of many political mouths these days; people will say anything to get elected, and then go on promising while they do their own thing. Advertising promises you the world, only when you get it, it's a cheap plastic imitation that breaks. Songs of the day tickle our ears and tease our hearts with the prospect of cheap thrills and endless pleasure, without telling you the truth about heartbreak and consequences. Those whose words should be a constant encouragement are more like a barrage of criticism and condemnation.

Financial systems are failing; economic crisis looms. The earth is off its axis, and weather patterns are crazy. There's war and disease and famine and pestilence and disaster and tragedy and crisis and chaos. Nothing seems to be going right, and sometimes I think the ground is falling away beneath me.

So what do I do? I truly have no choice. I trust in the LORD. I put my trust in God a long time ago, and He has never disappointed me, never left me alone, never forsaken nor forgotten me. He has always been faithful to His word, and I praise His word. I praise His name. I praise His promises, and know that they are faithful and true.

People lie. People die. People change. People move. People fail.

But God never does. So I will put my faith, my confidence, my hope and my trust in the LORD, and I will continue on with Him until He fulfills what He promised, until He completes what He started, until He does what He said He was going to do! And until He does, I will praise the LORD!