Daily Devotion

April 10 2006

Psa 119:116 KJV Uphold me according unto thy Word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

It is amazing to see how much easier it is for mankind to put his trust in man-made securities than in God’s Word.  During the Great Depression, thousands who had put their trust in the securities of this world found themselves jobless, penniless, at the mercies of soup kitchens and government programs.  The system obviously had failed them, but they went to rebuild it, and the golden “calf” on Wall Street lures investors now more than ever to the impious feasts.  Recently, thousands lost their 401K, college funds, etc to the Enron debacle, but what is even more pathetic is that these same people will continue gambling their lives, possessions and “earned wages to put it into a bag with holes” of man’s securities. Hag 1:6  

Can you imagine God’s disappointment and frustration? After He had opened the Red sea, drowned the armies of the enemy, provided food from Heaven, water from a rock, and yet, at the foot of Mt Sinai, they make a golden calf.  When will we learn to not lean on the “stock” of Egypt?   No matter what or who He uses as His instrument of supply, He ultimately is the one who is our great security.

The Bible tells us of a soon-coming day when under the last world dictator, one will not be able to buy nor sale without trading his faith in God for his faith in this antichrist ruler.  Let us learn today to make God our hope according to His Word, and then in those days we will not be ashamed.  

Num 23:19  God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Psa 37:25  I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.  

Patrick Lumbroso
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