As we continue reading Psalm 146, today we focus on verses 3 and 4 which say:
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them. Psalm 146: 3-4 [NLT]
In African countries I have been to and where I grew up, people have large extended families. Interestingly, and where peace prevails, the majority of people living in the same street, village and community would know each other and essentially everybody from the same community is a "relative". That’s how close and hospitable people sometimes are! For many reasons - this is a good thing.
Thus, when the Lord started calling me for His service, I was so much bonded with all my extended family. My life, identity and security lay in trying to please everybody and to keep tradition so that when in trouble I could count on my extended family for support.
Life was good until I needed help which I thought my relatives could deliver based on what I had done for them. Unfortunately, help never came. Gradually, and as I read my bible more and more, I learnt to love all people irrespective of whether we are related or not. I learnt not to put my trust in man but in Jesus Christ!
When God started doing great things with Abraham, He began by separating him from his own people so he could learn to trust in the Lord. No wonder Abraham is modelled as the father of faith by God
Today, if you find yourself lonely or quite safe in the comfort of friends or relatives, put all your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Only He is...."a real friend" who "sticks closer than a brother" (Proverbs 18 vs 24: NLT). He is the only Person to ever die for you and me but also rose again!
Farai Mutsambiwa
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