the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Psalms 118:8. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Psalms 62:7.
From first to last the Scriptures exhort us to put our trust in God, who is most worthy of our confidence. They warn us against putting our trust in man, in creatures, yea, they curse him who trust in man, and make flesh his arm, while they promise all happiness and blessing to him who trust in the Lord (Jeremiah 17:5-8). He shall be as a tree planted by the waters and as a rock in the sea. We trust, nevertheless, so readily in man, look constantly around for human stays and forget the Lord and His arm as though He did no exist, as though He had not promised us anything. Thus hard does man find it to trust in that which is eternally established, the unchangeable, which he does not see. He trusts in the straw that he sees; he leans rather upon a reed that he can grasp with the hand, and which breaks and cuts his hand before he has really leaned upon it. But he who has learned to trust in the Lord, who makes a path in the sea and a way in the deep waters, stands in the storm as a rock in the ocean, assaulted and persecuted, and yet immovable upon the Foundation which can not be shaken. He that does not look at the danger, nor the rolling billows of tribulation, but at the Pilot, who has yet never suffered shipwreck, whose ship yet never has been destroyed, stands fast in God as if there were nothing but Jesus and God, no danger, no calamity.
Commit thy way, confiding,
When trials here arise,
To Him whose hand is guiding
The tumults of the skies.
There clouds and tempests, raging,
Have each their part assigned;
Will God, for thee engaging,
No way of safety find?
