Rather than blaming God when everything is going wrong we should consider Jeremiah 17:5. Perhaps we have set our hearts on His strength not our weaknesses.
I blamed God for a lot of things in the past because I did not understand what He was doing in my life. I had indeed made some mistakes , but blaming God instead of taking responsibility for them only led to more blame. It took me years to learn that the blame game would never give me closure.
Trust is a serious issue to the Lord. He invites us to trust in him with all our hearts in Proverbs 3:5.
Isaiah 2:22 is a good reminder to always put our trust the Lord rather than man. “Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for of what account is he?” It is easy to look to others for strength and hope. 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.
There is one Bible verse I keep close to my heart. It is Psalm 142:4 in the King James Version. “I looked on my right hand, and behind, but there was no man that would know me, refuge failed me, no man cared for my soul.” It makes it easier to navigate through life when I have one question in my heart when people want to come into my life. “Does this person care for my soul?” David wrote this Psalm when he was hiding from King Saul in a cave. David felt completely alone, abandoned, and forgotten by people, realizing that human beings could not save or protect his life. The next verse he wrote says, “I cried to You, Lord. I said, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
The truth is that man is fragile. Man ceases to breathe, ceases to live. So why do we place our hope and our strength in such fragility? Why not look to the Lord who is eternal and sovereign?
We are all guilty of depending on man. But what should we do instead – we have the privilege to look to the Lord. We should take advantage of this privilege while we still have a choice.
This type of thinking does not go well in today’s society. To the world, we are highly evolved creatures, who don’t need God. But God knows our frame, he remembers we are dust.
The world worships and praises those of high influence and status, but in the end, our frames are weak because they are dust. I think it is good to remember that we are just mere humans. We are not God, and we should not view ourselves with pride, ourselves, or see ourselves as though we are gods.
David said in Psalm 144:4, “Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.”
We would do well to think deeply about the day we will pass from this life into eternity.
“Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days, let me know how fleeting I am” -Psalm 39:4
I think there is a serious price to pay if we take this lightly. The Lord reminds us in Jeremiah 17:5, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the Lord.”
From Pity to Praise 