Psalms 119:116 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 in 1929, 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 still went on to rebuild it, and now, more than ever, the golden “calf” on Wall Street continues to lure investors to its 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 the uncertain ‘bags’ of man’s securities Haggai 1:6.
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 erect an idolatrous 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, God is ultimately 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.
Numbers 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?
Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
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