As Human Beings we have to depend on something (or someone) to feel whole. For instance, we all need some kind of income in order to have the means to subsist in our society because that’s how we have designed our way of living. And if we don’t have it, we suffer, so we become dependent on the income in order to live. But that is not the only thing we have to depend on because if we have all the money in the world and don’t have food to buy, we’ll die of hunger, and if we get sick and can’t get any medicine, or if we need a service we do not have, we are finished. Yet, Jesus told the devil in the wilderness: “It is written ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE’” (Luke 4.4) And that means that if you have it ALL but do not have the most important, you are “as good as dead.”
In the Word of God, the Scriptures, or the Bible, however you want to call it, we have many examples of what happened to people, which evidence what or who we must depend on no matter how difficult our situation might be. We have a perfect example in the history of King David, when he was only a young lad, sheep care taker who defied the Philistines’ champion. Goliath, the giant, challenged the Israeli people to a fight and whoever won was to subdue the “other people” and make them their slaves. He was well prepared and very confident on himself and his physical strength, and laughed at the wimpish boy who would be an easy prey with no fighting attire. But the weak looking boy had the experience of fighting wolves and lions who attacked the sheep, but most important, he relied on his God who gave him the moral strength to know in whom to trust when everyone else was trembling before the ‘monster’. And when he slung the first stone, it hit him right between the eyes making him fall so David cut his head off with his own sword and all the Philistines who had trusted their champion ran away scared. (Read I Samuel chapter 17)
When we put our trust in The Lord of Hosts we know He’ll do right for us no matter how bad it might seem, or how long it takes, for He knows when and how. David himself advises us:
Do not fret because of evildoers, be not envious toward wrongdoers. For they will wither quickly like the grass, and fade like the green herb. Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in Him, and He will do it. (Psalm 37.1-5)
