Psalm 146 New King James Version
The Happiness of Those Whose Help Is the Lord
146 Praise[a] the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 While I live I will praise the Lord;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in [b]a son of man, in whom there is no [c]help.
4 His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day his plans perish.
5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them;
Who keeps truth forever,
7 Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.
8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;
The Lord raises those who are bowed down;
The Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
But the way of the wicked He [d]turns upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign forever—
Your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the Lord!
The Word of God for the Children of God.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.
Psalm 146:1-2 The Message
146 1-2 Hallelujah!
O my soul, praise God!
All my life long I’ll praise God,
singing songs to my God as long as I live.
“I would trust them with my soul – with my very life to never mislead me.”
I heard someone say these words a few weeks ago when he was speaking about a long time supervisor friend of his whom he held in such very high regard.
Alarm bells went off all through in my spirit when I heard those words because I knew then and now that we should never trust another human with our soul.
The Word of God teaches that only God should be trusted with our soul because only God had created us and only God has our absolute best interest at heart.
Psalm 139:13-16 The Message
13-16 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
Only God can absolutely save your soul from eternal destruction and bless you and keep you absolutely with eternal life in an immortal body that’s perfect.
With such knowledge tucked away, why would anyone want to trust another human with something so valuable, the essence of who was in Jesus Christ?
Psalm 139:17-18 English Standard Version
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
We cannot take our possessions to Heaven.
We can only take our character and the new life God gives our bodies.
Only Creator God can be absolutely and perfectly trusted with our souls.
Remember: We have an enemy who is out to kill, steal, and destroy our souls in hell (Genesis 3:1-7, John 10:10, 1 Peter 5:8-9).
No human can prevent that from happening to us; only God can save our souls!
While it’s great and very important and critical to have people in your life who you can trust, ultimately you should never trust another imperfect human (and we are all imperfect – by the way) with something as utterly sacred as your soul.
Why?
Because we are mere mortals who are all sinners saved by God’s grace (Ephesians 2:8-9).
We have faults.
We make mistakes.
We have flaws.
We have wandering personalities with all manner of biases and prejudices.
Isaiah 53:6 New American Standard Bible
6 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To [a]fall on Him.
We will all inevitably let people down.
We will all inevitably experience failure.
We will all inevitably fall in and out of love with people.
We will all inevitably have good days and bad days and days of catastrophe.
We are each fighting different battles—both visible and invisible—every day.
And even the most educated, wise, and “perfect”—by the world’s standards or Christian standards—person has their array of flaws, faults and utter failures .
Even on a good day, on the greatest days of our lives, we can fall into doing bad things or make choices and decisions that alter the course of our and others life.
Bottom line:
We sinful humans cannot be trusted completely no matter how much we love people because at the end of the day, we’re flawed creatures and we’re not God who is all-knowing, powerful, wise, and equipped with a love that never fails!
All of this reminds me of those Bible verses that admonishes us to trust God who is # 1 and not put our trust in princes, mere mortals who cannot save us.
Psalm 118:5-9 New American Standard Bible
5 From my distress I called upon [a]the Lord;
[b]The Lord answered me and put me in an open space.
6 The Lord is for me; I will not fear;
What can man do to me?
7 The Lord is for me among those who help me;
Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me.
8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in people.
9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in noblemen.
There is so much high wisdom within those verses from Psalmist King David.
I know that it’s easy for us to look to royalty or other well-respected authorities or famous people to represent us, to advocate to plead our cause, to fight for us, to be there for us, to take care of us and our needs in all available circumstances.
But at the end of the day, they’re just like us—flawed imperfect sinful humans who don’t have the power to grant us eternal life in Heaven nor do they have the ultimate power to send us all to hell – Why do we put our trust in these people?
Let me clarify: You and I do have to be able to trust people on a basic level to have and share relationships, to connect, to love, to survive and thrive in life.
But you and I should never trust any imperfect person so completely that we believe they’ll always be there for us and they’ll never fail – because they will.
And if they never leave you nor forsake you as a friend or spouse here on earth, when it’s their time for them to die they will 100000% leave us here on Earth.
Because, thanks be to God, absolutely every human has an expiration date.
But thanks be to God, the good news is that God, our Eternal King, lives forever through all eternity!
Revelation 1:8 New American Standard Bible
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who [a]is to come, the Almighty.”
So please, from Alpha to Omega, entrust your soul to your Maker, not mankind.
From Alpha to Omega, He will absolutely take good care of us IF we trust Him.
More good news:
From Alpha to Omega, God is the most trustworthy force in the entire universe!
From Alpha to Omega, I hope these timeless words have encouraged your heart.
From Alpha to Omega, May I pray for you?
In the name of God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,
Let’s Pray:
Dear God,
My Alpha and My Omega, Thank You for being the Lover of my soul. Thank You for always being there for me. Help me to trust you with my life, my heart, my dreams, my plans, my loved ones, and most importantly, my soul. I trust You to take good care of it and usher me into eternity with You. With my whole soul, I love You, Lord. Bless the Lord, O My Soul and all that is within me! In Jesus’s Name, I pray. Amen.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.
Loving God, Living God, Loving Hope, Living Hope, Loving Living Life His Way! "Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." - Brother Lawrence (1605-1691), Practicing the Presence of God (1692). 