What You Believe In Is Your God

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken. My victory and honor come from God alone. He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me. [Psalm 62.5-7]

What a perfectly lovely passage of Scripture in the Psalms!

While many will immediately find great comfort and consolation in this passage, I think it only fair to point out an mostly-overlooked caveat found therein.

He alone is my rock and my salvation... My victory and honor come from God alone...

Notice the word "alone."

The mistake too many people make is to add God to their lives. I mean, after all, He certainly makes things better, right? Right?

Before I ever even began to read from the OYCB today, and while still in prayer, I wrote down these words: "To trust oneself is to NOT trust God." In other words, if I believe in myself, I am NOT believing in God.

What?

Cannot a man trust God and trust in himself as well? Doesn't that arrangement just make sense? OF COURSE IT DOES, however, it just doesn't line up with God's Word as seen in the Psalms today:

He alone is my rock and my salvation... My victory and honor come from God alone...

If our victory, success, or accomplishments are our own, then we need to find another god, because the God of the Bible says this:

You must not have any other god but me. [Exodus 20.3]

What you believe in is your god.

What you believe in is your god.

What you believe in is your god.

What you believe in is your god.

We must see the perilous error of today's widely-accepted cliche's like: "Believe in yourself!" These self-focused sayings are nothing less that stealthily-crafted lies of Satan to steal God's glory!

The Bible never instructs us to believe in man. In fact, the Bible teaches us that man, at his heart level, categorically CANNOT BE TRUSTED!

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? [Jeremiah 17.9]

In light of this, do we even want to trust in ourselves (or any man for that reason)? I should hope we all respond with a firm "NO!"

Father, may we evaluate what and who we trust in every day. May Your grace be upon us to reject all the demonic notions of self-reliance that are being pumped into society today. May our trust be found in You and You ALONE!