Today’s passage from Psalms is very appropriate for the times we live in. So many people are putting their hope into a specific candidate, government support, or other human institution. What the Psalmist knew nearly three thousand years ago is still true today.
We live in a material world. We seek after material solutions. We often look to people in power to solve the problems we see all around us. It is a false sense of security to believe one person in power can rectify all the issues we face. There is only One who can fully fix them.
Our frailty limits our ability to see fully the way God sees. It is not merely physical frailty but psychological and emotional frailty. Our minds are not able to comprehend what God comprehends. As the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see in a mirror, dimly.” All the more reason to put our trust in God.
As the Psalmist writes, the plans of a human leader fail once they have died. As stated, we should not put our trust in government leaders. Not that we are to be cynical, but that we should trust in God and do for ourselves all that we can do. Trusting someone else to ride in and save the day is setting ourselves up for disappointment.
God alone is always with us. God alone oversees the entire earth. God alone knows what will has happened yesterday, what is happening today, and what will happen tomorrow. He does not control us like a puppet master, but he is in control of all things. If we want to see a sweeping change occur in our world, we should pray that God move mightily throughout the world, bringing people to him. It is only by people coming to God that our world will change for the better.
I pray we all see to fruitlessness of trusting human leaders. I pray we trust God in all situations. I pray each one of us goes to God in prayer and asks him to move mightily throughout the world. Do not trust human leaders. Trust God. Trust him always. Ask God to move mightily. Ask God to change our world.
Psalm 146:3-4
Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortals, in whom there is no help.
When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
on that very day their plans perish.
Marty Pressey 