Trust Issues

Isaiah 2:22

“Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils.  Why hold them in esteem?”  

I grew up hunting all kinds of animals.  Hunting season came with excitement and it was something I would look forward to every year.  If you have ever hunted, you know that you have to get up super early and get to the deer blind before the sun comes up.  You would sit in the blind and watch the sun slowly come up illuminating the horizon.  While this was going on, strange shadows appeared in your field of view and you were certain that it was a deer until light revealed that it was only a bush. I went hunting many times but I never seemed to stop getting faked out by the shadows even though they were mostly just bushes. My trust was in the wrong thing.   

Many people have trust issues and rightly so because of their past.  When we have trust issues we put up walls around us to protect us, good or bad.  We hide behind these walls because they represent something we can trust. 

During the times of the kings in Israel’s past, they had problems with trusting the Lord so they turned to idols and other gods to fill the space in their hearts that should have housed only the Lord.  They had trust issues.  They would rather pray to the idols made from human hands and see what happened rather than believe in the Lord.  We don’t see much idol worshiping of that specific kind today.  No, we see idols in different forms today.  Idols like social media, friend groups, gossip groups, a social image, famous people, and so on.  At the heart of most the idols of today is a trust in humans that God warns us about our verse above.

In Psalm 39:7 it says, “..my hope is in you Lord.”  There is even a hymn that we used to sing in church that goes, “My hope is in you Lord, my trust is in you Lord…”  Yes, trust!  All throughout the Bible, God is trying to get us to trust in Him and Him alone.  Our true human default mode is trust.  We are made in the image of God and that image demands a trust in something.  God gave us the choice because he wanted our complete hearts. Not just an obedient servant, but rather a trust like that of a young boy or girl has in their own parents. 

When the Lord shows up and you place him in your heart, “…the idols will totally disappear.” (verse 18).  Yes, your trust becomes aligned with the Lord and you finally get to the place David was at when he said in Psalm 118:6, “The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”  Today, begin to turn it all over the God who made you and trust in Him.  

Prayer: Father help us to realign our trust in you. Help us put away all forms of gods and idols that we have been holding on to. I pray that we all put all of our trust and hope in you Lord. In Jesus name, amen.