Bible Verse of the Day Saturday February 3rd, 2024

Isaiah 2:22 Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

While we love and care about others, everyone is just like us. Each is an imperfect human being who breathes the same air and walks the same ground we do. Only One is worthy of our definitive trust. He displayed that to us by sacrificing what was most precious to him so we could know his love. Let's not put our hope in other humans; only God can protect our trust and ensure our future. Let's put our hope in him. Human fondness invites trust in our fellow human beings. There are loving souls in our sphere of influence, encompassing our spirits in the clasp of their affection; it is natural for us to react to their kindheartedness and to offer them the complete trust of our souls. We love those who love us, and in whom we love, we trust.

Confidence is frequently directly submitted to us and implored upon us. Those who wish, possibility for their own resolves, to acquire our confidence in them understand how to utilize flourishing arts to gain our assurance. They fundamentally say to us, "Trust me, I will guarantee your good; I will lead you in the path of admiration, of gratification, of success," often, the flatteries or their clamoring will triumph.

Trust in humans is infectious. We discover our friends and neighbors on every hand, in every circle, resting the entire weight of their security upon the support of other people, entrusting completely in their friends and neighbors, risking everything on their honesty and uprightness. What others do, we sometimes do, also. I once heard it said that "The frost may have been very few, and the ice may seem very thin, but many are skating on its surface, and we think that where they have gone, we also may go with impunity."

We should never place our complete and total trust in humans. Our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father will never go astray; He will never leave or forsake us. There will never be a single heartbeat of our lives that God will not be there, twenty-four seven. The Word of God is not teaching us we should never place our trust in people that we love and know that they love us. This verse of Scripture teaches us that if the ones we are trusting in are also trusting in God, we can trust that God is in control of whatever situation we are navigating at that time. 

Charles Spurgeon once wrote: "Every person must cease from themself first, and then from all humanity, as their hope and trust, because neither we nor others are worthy of such confidence. Wherein are we to be accounted of?" Compared with God, humans are less than nothing and are vanity. Reckon them so, and act upon the reckoning."