God Alone

Reflections for this date are based on the following scripture passages:
2 Timothy 3	2 Timothy 4	Philemon 1	Numbers 27	Numbers 28	Psalms 62	Proverbs 19

The writer of Psalms 62 gives us the only perspective that will not fail us. He says, "Rest in God alone." It is only God who is our true source of hope. This doesn't mean we don't place our hope in other people or things. We do. But sooner or later they fail us and then where is our hope? Unless we at some point come to place our hope in God we risk coming to a time when all hope is gone. We only have to look to an increasing suicide rate to realize that this occurs for more people than we might imagine. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, there are on average, 117 suicides per day in the United States. That is a lot of lost hope.

The psalmist learned to make God his refuge at all times. If God alone can save us eternally, it makes sense the He alone can rescue us from life's challenges.

The psalmist points out that men are only a vapor, here one day and gone the next. Not much security in placing our trust in people. The same is true of wealth, he says. If we place our trust in wealth we might turn to oppression and robbery to gain it. But wealth is not our hope so he says to pay no attention to it. Our only recourse, then, is to trust in the Lord, and Him alone.