Where is your trust?

A television program preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics featured blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing, impossible as that sounds. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make right and left turns. When that was mastered, they were taken to the slalom slope, where their sighted partners skied beside them shouting, "Left!" and "Right!" As they obeyed the commands, they were able to negotiate the course and cross the finish line, depending solely on the sighted skiers' word. It was either complete trust or catastrophe.
What a vivid picture of the Christian life! In this world, we are in reality blind about what course to take. We must rely solely on the Word of the only One who is truly sighted--God Himself. His Word gives us the direction we need to finish the course.
- Robert W. Sutton.

Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?

David was the king of the strongest nation on earth. He had every luxury at his disposal. He had seen the best days and even the worse ones. After all these experiences he did not place his trust in the treasuries of his kingdom. He did not boast about the fleet of soldiers. He did not brag about his past victories whether big or small. His confidence was on the Lord and the Lord Himself.

Perhaps in this 21st century, we often feel that God is outdated and we can do a better job. Maybe we have missed a point or two. With the education, resources and all the other things at our disposal, we have tried to replace God. Whereas all these things were given to us to know the Lord more. But several times we are at the other end. But as king David reminds us that his strength is not in what he has, but in the very Lord who has called him. Where is your trust?

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Stanley Thomas Isac

Stanley is serving as the Pastor of Crossway Church in New Delhi, he can be reached at Pastorstanleytisac@gmail.com