Trustworthy

Times of cultural sea change, chaos, ambiguity and natural disaster are all opportunities for the believer to reconsider the genuine source of safety and security. 

The king is not saved by a mighty army; A warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory; Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength. Psalm 33:16-17

The modern world has sophisticated systems of wealth management, insurance, education, medical technology and science.  These all combine to make the world a much better and safer place to live. Much good is accomplished. They reflect our immense capacity as creators made in the image of the Creator. The subtle deception that lodges its way into our psyche is that these creations are trustworthy of our absolute faith. We are and should be impressed with humanity’s accomplishments.  They are micro-reflections of our origin. Humans, the pinnacle of creation, overthrew our connection to the Creator, with independent behavior and choices. That introduced a deluge of chaos, disaster and uncertainty into creation. Consequently, anything we can invent can be destroyed by other renegade segments of God’s creation.  

The devil’s gateway to earth was our unwitting complicity with His schemes.   In the Lord’s benevolent patience, He allows rebel outposts for a season. Thus, humanity persistent compliance with the devil’s dictates called ‘sin’, reverberates into all creation destabilizing everything from the weather to microbes. The existence of this uneasy, (and generally unacknowledged by humanity) alliance between man and the devil perpetuates this sabotage of God’s creation.  God’s, intention for earth was to be beneficent to humanity, but instead can turn hostile and deadly. Hence, we suffer from pestilence, plagues, natural disaster, and inexplicable terror. Even our own creations turn deadly: splitting the atom and DDT.  

Alas, harnessing creation’s enormous power, is an insufficient source of true security and safety.  We place our trust in the One who created it all, the One who is reservoir of life, and the One who delivers us from our own folly is worthy of our unqualified trust.  Everything else will prove unreliable.