“Trust In God & Not In Man”

​Each Sunday I do a Kingdom Kid’s pastor Children’s moment. It is one of the hardest things that I do every week. I have lately tried my hand at doing some magic tricks with a spiritual application for the kids. Some Sundays the magic trick works and they get the spiritual application. Other Sundays – not so much. Either I don’t fool them with the trick or they don’t get the spiritual application.
          One Sunday I was trying to show them how they could always trust God and not always be able to trust people. In the trick I was trying to get a young man to do something but he saw right through it and wouldn’t fall for what I wanted him to do. I went on and emphasized how I was trying to trick him and that we had to be careful with people but that we could always trust God because He would never try to trick or fool us.
At the end another little boy said, “Preacher what I learned today is that you can trust God but you can’t trust Pastor Gary”. Of course, the whole church laughed at his wisdom. Instead of getting upset I told the little brat (I mean fella) that he was right. That even people that we trusted sometimes would deceive us and we had to make sure and trust in God who never would deceive, fail, or do anything wrong to us.
The Bible tells us in Psalm 118:8 “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man”. Mainly because Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart (of man) is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”  We have a sinful heart with a sinful nature. So, we can and will do things that are sinful. Sometimes we do these things willfully and other times we do them without bad intentions but they are still wrong. When we sin, it hurts our reputation of being trustworthy as well as the reputation of God.
The Bible also tells us in Proverbs 3:5 that we can’t even trust ourselves, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”  Many times, we will even deceive ourselves. We will convince ourselves that what God calls sin isn’t really that bad and besides everyone else is doing it. We convince ourselves that our sin really isn’t that bad and we judge others whom we see as have really bad sins.
We want kids and others to be able to trust us. But we must live in such a way as to show the trustworthiness of God in the way that we live, what we say, and the love that we show. GOD trusts us to be a witness and a testimony for Him, so let’s don’t let Him down.
In love with Jesus – Gary Mimbs