Topic: PSalm 49:14-20
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. Psalm 49:15
A dear friend of mine who lived several of his adult years in a communist country taught me a valuable lesson about trusting God.
I had the nerve to observe about his life one day that being a believer in a communist country really must have been difficult. Apparently shocked that I would have thought such a thing, he responded: "Oh, no. It was actually much easier to be a Christian in my homeland because there we understood we could not go on living without faith in God. Here, believers often go days and weeks without giving more than a passing thought to God."
We sometimes live our lives that way, often going through our days without conscious reliance on God. Though we may pray over our meals, we may seldom realize that but for the direct intervention of God we would have gone hungry.
God can do for us what riches cannot. We need to trust Him and thank Him for every provision of life.
Father, I am dependent on You in every area of my life.