TO TRUST GOD ONLY

February 27

Psalms 119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

The proud challenge dependence on the Lord; by so doing, they establish their own means of sustenance and health. Refusing to keep God in control of their supply lines, they prostitute themselves to the world; they commit whoredom with Babylon. Babylon is turn is happy to indulge in liberating people from the controlling avaricious clutches of God, and provide them with everything they need, everything they, and most of all what God in his great wisdom has restrained from them. After all, wasn’t it the devil who offered Eve the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:1-6)? Wasn’t it the same devil who offered the glories of the kingdoms of the world to Jesus, but without the price of the crucifixion? (Matthew 4:8-9)

The way of God is usually straight and narrow (Matthew 7:14); even the land of milk and honey was not obtained without a fight. The Word of God was given on a mountain. To get it, Moses had to climb out of his comfort zone; leave behind the comfort of home. A seventy year old Nepali Sharpah can carry up the Himalayas Mountains a load that would make our valley young people faint. These mountain people do not have health problems due to fat around their heart.

The way of indulgence is wide. Easy life makes the heart grow fat, weak and corrupt. Covered with fatness, greased with excuses, it becomes insensitive to God and to others. It becomes an island isolated from reality where everything is done out of self-concern and preservation.

May God help me to yield when the way is hard
May He help me to trust when the bend is blind
My comfort is His Word so secure
The promise of a rest that is sure.

Luke 4:6-7 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. (7) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.