Some Trust in Chariots

And a very good morning! It is Sunday morning, 12th June 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

If we go straight to Psalm 33 and I am reading from verse 16:

“No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy”

What a beautiful encouragement, you know Psalm 20:7 is one of my favourite verses. It reads:

“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”

You know, many years ago I was planting a very expensive crop of seed maize and I had to get it right. I had all the experts and they advised me how to plant that crop: Put in the right amount of fertiliser; plant the right seed spacing. Make sure there are no weeds and don’t forget to top dress with an extra lot of fertiliser. I did everything according to the book but do you know something? I got it wrong. My calibration for the seed spacing was totally out... When the maize came up three weeks later, there were huge gaps in the crop and I really thought I was going to go bankrupt. I used to look at that crop, day after day, and I would get so despondent... Then I remembered that lovely scripture in John 16:33, Jesus says:

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

And you know, I put my trust in the Lord -I said, “Lord, I don’t know what is going to happen..." but I want to tell you that that particular year, we had a terrible drought and you know, with those big gaps in-between the plants, the maize crops had more room to absorb the moisture and we had a gigantic crop of maize, that’s right! It didn’t make a bumper crop but I covered all my costs. Now if I had planted that seed according to the way I should have, there would have been no crop because there would have been no moisture for the maize to grow. Sometimes we do things and we make a mistake and we put our trust in man’s ability but at the end of the day, it's our trust in God that sees us through. He turned that crop around for us and we carried on living.

God bless you and have a wonderful Sunday,
Goodbye.