WE PUT OUR HOPE IN YOU
Psalm 33
“But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.”
In the time of the Psalmist, food and security were life and death issues and so when he wanted to illustrate hope they are what people would understand immediately.
In modern society, hoping in God for food and security would be considered foolish in a practical sense unless you are in a war zone and the infrastructure of society has broken down; a healthy bank balance would be a more important consideration.
However, when it comes to life and death, whatever it may be that brings us to the brink—whether an incurable illness, a fatal accident or even when evil befall us—we know that all the money in the world would be useless because money does not care about us or is even conscious of who we are.
What the Psalmist wants us to understand is that the eyes of the Lord are on us who fear him, whose hope is in his unfailing love.
Even if you are the king and you command a huge army, or you are the strongest warrior or you have the fastest horse, you cannot escape the reach of death.
But when God counts us as one of his, his eye is on us we can trust in his unfailing love. Is this not cause for joy?
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth— he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.”