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Who Do You Trust?
By George Stroh
September 7, 2020
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5)
Who do you trust? Who can you trust, especially concerning the important questions of life and death? The bible says that unregenerate people (unbelievers) are by nature liars; Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of asps is under their lips. (Romans 3:13)
The Bible says that either your spiritual father is God, who cannot lie, or Satan, a liar and the father of lies; You are of your father the devil (deceiver), and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44)
The Bible says that the only one who never lies and therefore can always be trusted to tell the truth is God and His word; Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. (John 17:17) ...Let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "That You may be justified in Your words, and prevail when You are judged." (Romans 3:4)
Of course, trusting that God's word is truth requires faith in Him and His omnipotent ability to accurately and completely communicate His truth; And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
So unless and until we have come to believe in the God of the Bible through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone, we are left to trust in others who are by nature prone to lie or simply lean on our own limited understanding. Listen to Job's counsel about leaning on your own understanding; "...Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.... Therefore, I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes." (Job 42:3, 6)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5)
Maranatha!
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