Today's Reading
- Genesis 46-50
- Exodus 1-2
- Psalm 25-28
- Isaiah 25-28
- Matthew 11-12
- 1 Corinthians 1-3
Yesterday should have been day seven for me. Unfortunately, circumstances got in the way. Rather than try to play catch up, I just picked up today where I left off on Wednesday. Since I started on August 29th, and my goal is to end by October 31st, I have a few days of grace. Yesterday, I used up one of them.
Reflecting on what I blogged last, I was more than delighted when I took in today's reading, especially when I encountered an oft quoted verse in Isaiah 26:3, You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you! It is followed by the further encouragement of verse 4, Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
We must trust in the Lord! That means we place all our faith, hope, and confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ--in who He is, in what He has said, in what He is able to do. Placing our trust anywhere else is just folly.
Some trust in chariots and horses, the Psalmist wrote. I don't have a chariot or a horse to trust in, but there are lots of other things this world offers that we often rely upon. We rely upon our abilities, our jobs, our income. We trust our friends and our family. We hope our doctor, our lawyer, our banker can help us in times of need. But what happens when all those things fail? What happens when my health breaks, my strength falters, my talents grow useless with the passing of time? What happens when my friends abandon me and my family disowns me? What happens when the doctor says there's nothing he can do, the lawyer says I'm finished, the banker says my credit is no good? What happens then?
Only God will never fail me. He hasn't failed me or mine in 38 years; he's not going to start today.
Is that to say that nothing bad ever happened to me? Is that to say God has always done everything I asked him to do, or gave me everything I wanted? Definitely not. Plenty of bad things have happened along the way. I've been sick, but never to the point of disease, desperation, or death. I've been depressed, but never to the point of giving up. I've been poor, but never hungry, homeless, or without resources. Death, divorce, defeat, disappointment. These I have tasted, but I did not become bitter. I kept trusting in the Lord.
And when my life seems to spin out of control, I continually remind myself, God will keep me in perfect peace if my mind is stayed upon Him. That's one of the reasons I'm reading the Bible through in sixty days--to refocus my mind upon Him. Every day I pick up the Bible and read, I am reminded that God is going to keep me, because I am His and He is mine, and He can be trusted!
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