Trust is a serious issue to the Lord. He invites us to “Trust in the Lord will all our hearts” in Proverbs 3:5. When I read Isaiah 2:22 it reminds me to always place my trust in the Lord rather than man. It’s easy to look for others for strength and help. We seek people’s advice, and worse we seek their approval and all the while, we fail to look to the Lord for these things.
Isaiah 2:22 says, “Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?” In other words, who look to man when we have the privilege to look to the Lord? In the words of Isaiah he quickly reminds us we are “mere humans” and that is all. This type of thinking does not go well in today’s society. The world claims we are “highly evolved creatures, but David said in Psalm 103:14, For He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust.”
This world worships and praises those of high influence and status, but in the end, our frames are weak because they are dust. We are not Gods and we should not view ourselves, pride ourselves, or conceit ourselves as such.
Why do we spend our days only conserving and trying to impress those who are going to pass away like a shadow, when our primary concern should be the eternal God who we will one day stand before to give an account.
2 Corinthians 5:10-11 tells us, “For we must all be revealed before the judgement seat of Messiah, that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in our consciences.”
This verse reminds us that even the strongest, wealthiest men are only for a moment. Without breath in our nostrils, we cease to exist. We have no control over our lives. So, whatever talent, skills, riches, knowledge, strength and health we may have only exist while there is breath in our nostrils. Once that breath is gone, so is all the things we hold dear.
I have told people for years, that Jesus is not about religion, church, or rules or clothing, He proved that when we came to earth. It’s about God, the very one who breathed life into our bodies. It’s about the Bible, the Word of God.
Everyone is so focused on successful people in government positions and that they fail to realize what’s really going on in the world.
We should be praying and asking God to help us measure our days and realize how fleeting our life is.
Psalm 90:10 says, “The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.”
Our lives pass by so quickly, and we waste so much time not realizing who it belongs to. There is no salvation in man.
David says in Psalm 121:1-2, “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
There is an incredible difference between trusting in the Creator verses mere humans who are limited to the frailty of breath in their nostrils.
There is a serious price to pay when we trust in man and Jeremiah 17:5 warns us, “Thus says the Lord, Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord.”
God made it clear that He expected our trust to be in Him and not mankind. So, many churches have taught over the years how live, believe, dress, eat, drink and give a certain way. I’ve known churches that tell their members that they don’t need to read the Bible. The Bible is about who God is and how we are supposed to live for Him. Churches that tell people what to think, not how to think. Which I believe is why most people fall for the lies and propaganda on social media, and the news. It’s not
It’s not about mere man, it’s about Almighty God.
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