What Is Your Hope, Confidence, and Reliance Rooted In?

Where is your faith?   Is your faith in your family and your friends?   Is it in your job?   Is it in what you can do and what you can make happen?  Or is your faith in God?   We have to understand that the word faith is defined as our "complete" hope and confidence in someone or something.

Is your hope and confidence in what others can do for you or in what God can do for you?   People may stand by you  but you can't put your total hope in confidence in them.   What if something happens and they leave?   What if God calls them home?   What if their attitudes and their actions change concerning you?   What do you do when they do the unexpected?   Do you give up?   Do you quit?   Do you get mad and begin to talk about them because they didn't do what you expected or wanted them to do?   We have to remember that God will use people to help us but our hope and our confidence have to remain in Him.   

What about your job?   Is your hope, confidence, and reliance on your paycheck?   What happens when the job goes out of business or they suddenly do a layoff?   What happens when you get that supervisor that has something against you for some reason or another?   What happens then?    We have to understand that God opens up the door for us to work at various places but just as He opens up that door, He can surely open up another.   Again, our hope and confidence can never be in the job, it must always remain in the Supplier and God is the source of our resources.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Jeremiah 17:7

“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”