In God We Trust
Consider with me for a moment this statement:
“If we put our hope, our trust, in anyone other than the person of Jesus Christ and the Creator of the universe, then we are putting our trust in something broken.”
I love that quote.
In this world, we are a people guilty of looking to anything other than God to trust in. We look to government, corporations, retirement, family, friends, and even ourselves–all to no avail. They fail us. They are broken.
If we want to feel loved, significant, desired, or accepted, we often look to others–broken like ourselves–rather than to God our creator.
So it’s with this brokenness in mind that I reach out to all who will hear and share my heart on an issue that plagues mankind. The issue being, concerning all areas of life, the mistake of placing trust in broken solutions rather than God alone.
We are broken.
At the creation of human life we were right, just, and whole.
Then, sin entered through one man; therefore, we are all broken as a result.
Before we can see our need of a solution to the problem, we have to first acknowledge the problem.
Sin has broken us.
It broke our communion with a holy God, it broke our right standing before this holy God, and it broke the very world we live in.
We have been asked to apply verses like, “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,” (Matt. 5:48). Or in 1 John 3:9, “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning.” And Paul in Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
However, the unexpected occurs.
Then, we rationalize and find our own system to cope with the current issue. And thus, we have broken people trying to fix a broken world with broken solutions. Scripture says, “There is no one good, no not one.” Yet, we fight to prove and cope with the opposite. This is where trust and hope in a God who saves is our only escape from a life spent in endless and pointless effort–like the hamster in a wheel to nowhere.
Often, our method to cope with our brokenness is, “love myself” or “see myself as valuable.” But, in the scriptures, we are hard pressed to find support for self-help methods. Instead, we see more scriptures like Ezekiel 36:31, “Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.” God is telling his people that a proper self-image will cause such loathing that repentance will be the response. Similar to Isaiah when he saw the Lord, he confessed his inadequacies and repented. We also find Job saying how he abhors his self, and he repents in the dust and ashes. This view of man is not uncommon to God but rather to men who learn to see themselves as more than they are–to hopefully cope with a broken and fallen world.
Look with me at Psalm 62.
David expresses trust in the Lord in spite of opposition in this psalm of confidence. He contrasted the security that comes from trusting in God with the insecurity of hoping in human schemes. In Psalm 62:9, God weighs man and his worth on the scale only to reveal that the scale doesn’t move in favor of man at all and that all his schemes are but a vapor, and as light as one too. How amazing! On the scales of God, we weigh less than nothing. The scales never go up, and man is left with his true self-worth without God. What a graphic picture of man’s ultimate nothingness.
However, in this same psalm, we find the clear way to the answer we all seek. This comes from David’s life amidst opposition. He is facing much in life as we all are, but he holds strong to the One who solves it all.
In this psalm we see:
- David’s example to trust God
He begins the psalm by sharing, “My soul finds rest in God alone.”
This is the entire theme of the psalm.
2. David’s encouragement to trust God
David had seen, before, the saving power of God in hard times so he boasts in that to encourage people to trust God, our true refuge.
3. David’s exhortation to not trust ourselves
It is unwise to put one’s ultimate confidence in other people whether they are low or high in position, because all human beings are comparatively insignificant. Consequently, the actions and products of human endeavors are poor objects in which to trust.
All in all, I pray we would take heed to David’s psalm and apply it to our lives. People are constantly deciding whether to trust in what they can see or what they can’t. In this psalm, David helps us see that God Himself is a much better person to trust than any mortal man. We should trust God who remains faithful forever, because human beings pass away and often disappoint us. As long as we remain, living and outside of Christ, we are broken people and the results of our brokenness will be evident. Our only hope is to put all our hope and faith in One who is not broken like we are–Jesus Christ. Then, and only then, can we truly say, “In God we trust!”
All Comments 49
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
This is definitely one fo those topics you need reminded of almost every day because everyone at some point of the day or week trusts in something or someone else to follow through for them. Such as their car every day to get them from destination A to B, or their client to come though with a project. Ultimately we all need to just trust in God FIRST before any of those things. Thanks Teda, I really needed to hear that. Enjoy your summer!
Andrew
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
Our lives are mere vapors on God's scale, and yet he loves us more than we could ever comprehend. He sacrifed Jesus, who is perfect, for us, who are nothing.
Every breath, each individual heart beat, is a loving gift from God.
Life without him is a contradiction.
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Ryker
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
what a deep word! one of my fav psalms! A reminder of how fleeting our lives really are without are hope and trust in the One who gives us life!!! Thank You Jesus!
ashley alafberg
– Jul 29 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
Andrew, you rite about the reminders constantly. Remember in the OT when God kept saying to the Israilites "remember I brought you out of Egypt..." Mang, things ain't changed, I still gotta be reminded-but its a testament to God's grace with the stuff He be puttin' up with us,brah-I shoulda been dead a long time ago.
Noki
– Jul 30 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
I LOVE THE WAY u put that.
I NEEDED this reminder too. The last couple of weeks have been real tough for me to stay in the word and be obidient to his word but after reading this i know even more-so that it is vitally important that i stay putting my FAITH in the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
Easy to say harder to do it seems but he says his yoke is easy so thats what i got to trust in.
Once again thank you TEDASHII
Marcos jackson
Marcos Jackson
– Aug 19 2010
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gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
tedashi i loved your topic and everything u said was quite true....but on another note i have an artist here that i think you really need to hear please contact me or leave some information on my email please gt_jr8@homail.com HE IS THE REAL DEAL EXTREMELY TALENTED
gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
tedashi i loved your topic and everything u said was quite true....but on another note i have an artist here that i think you really need to hear please contact me or leave some information on my email please gt_jr8@homail.com HE IS THE REAL DEAL EXTREMELY TALENTED
gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
tedashi i loved your topic and everything u said was quite true....but on another note i have an artist here that i think you really need to hear please contact me or leave some information on my email please gt_jr8@homail.com HE IS THE REAL DEAL EXTREMELY TALENTED
gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
tedashi i loved your topic and everything u said was quite true....but on another note i have an artist here that i think you really need to hear please contact me or leave some information on my email please gt_jr8@homail.com HE IS THE REAL DEAL EXTREMELY TALENTED
gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
tedashi i loved your topic and everything u said was quite true....but on another note i have an artist here that i think you really need to hear please contact me or leave some information on my email please gt_jr8@homail.com HE IS THE REAL DEAL EXTREMELY TALENTED
gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
tedashi i loved your topic and everything u said was quite true....but on another note i have an artist here that i think you really need to hear please contact me or leave some information on my email please gt_jr8@homail.com HE IS THE REAL DEAL EXTREMELY TALENTED
gregory taylor
– Sep 10 2010
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012
I learned rtnecely that there at at least 50,000 bits of information (sights, sounds, feelings, smells, etc) possible to enter our minds in one second and that's just what's around one particular person. And the mind only can focus on up to 7 (+/-) per second. So we are filtering out almost all of reality. No wonder our thoughts are not God's thoughts . We are hardly even aware of much at all. It's very fun and helpful to me to shift the mind from time to time from the 7 things I would normally notice to 7 different ones that normally don't make it through my filters. Or to wonder what the world looks like through a different person's filters. I can't see all of the truth, but just shifting the focus slightly can be fun in itself. And the world can look pretty different from just one degree difference in perspective like how my daughter sees the world, or my husband, or someone I'm angry at.
Aydil
– Sep 19 2012