Thursday Psalms: Trust in the LORD!

This is election season; we're surrounded by countless voices and messages saying "Put your trust in me!"  We're told "Trust me with your vote and I will make your life better!".  So many people are promising to save you from "fill-in-the-blank".  But God tells us something clearly different in this psalm.

Psalm 146

¹ Praise the Lord!

        Praise the Lord, O my soul!

² I will praise the Lord as long as I live;

        I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

³ Put not your trust in princes,

        in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;

        on that very day his plans perish.

⁵ Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,

        whose hope is in the Lord his God,

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,

        who keeps faith forever;

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed,

        who gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets the prisoners free;

          ⁸ the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.

The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;

        the Lord loves the righteous.

⁹ The Lord watches over the sojourners;

        He upholds the widow and the fatherless,

               but the way of the wicked He brings to ruin.

¹⁰ The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations.

               Praise the Lord! 

Put not your trust in princes, or politicians or spouses or anyone.  Even the best of people who may love & care for us deeply will return to the earth.  Only the Lord your God can save you.  

As we read all of the blessings the Lord is and does, one jumps out as the most remarkable and the greatest:  the Lord keeps faith forever!  God is faithful & true to all His promises made to you!  He will never leave you nor forsake you!  He forgives and removes your sins from you as far as the east is from the west!  Jesus Christ the Son of God has taken the punishment your sins deserve and promises you will live with Him in heaven forever!

The Lord will reign forever, your God!  Put your trust in Him always!

Peace in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

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"Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law   

     and observe it with my whole heart."  Psalm 119:34