+DEV+ Where is Your Trust?

Date: July 19, 2011 11:56 PM
Topic: +DEV+ Where is Your Trust?

Where is Your Trust?

"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 'I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct'" (JEREMIAH 17:9-10)
Scripture Focus: Luke 12:13-21

Jesus told the parable of the rich fool, a story that reminds us of many people we know and resonates in our own hearts, too. In it the successful farmer felt he could "take life easy; eat, drink and be merry," since he had handily stored all his grain and goods. Wealthy and comfortable, he was not in the least prepared when the voice of God called, demanding his life and pressing him to consider where his possessions would go now.

It is foolish, indeed, to put our trust and hope in the fading stuff of this world. The commercial world constantly presents us with the next kind of clothing, home or vacation we "deserve." The pull is magnetic at times.

Oh, that we would realize soon that our trust and hope must never rest in material goods or in other people. Jeremiah tells us that in doing so we will be "like a bush in the wastelands" (17:6), rooted in nothing, and withering. Put your trust in the Lord, and see that even in times of drought, in Him we will bear much fruit.

Insight: Guard yourself against becoming greedy with money, position, possessions or relationships. instead trust God, the giver of those good things.