DO NOT PUT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES BUT IN GOD

 MONDAY, 8TH MAY, 2023.

Topic: DO NOT PUT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES BUT IN GOD

MEMORIZE: “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.” Psalm 118:8,9.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 146:1-4

“Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.”

EXPOSITION:

-David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought that he should be exempted from the service of praising God, that it was enough for him to see that his priests and people did it, but that he needed not to do it himself in his own person. Michal thought it a disparagement (ridicule) to him to dance before the ark; but he was so far from being of this mind that he would himself be first and foremost in the work, Ps 146:1,2. He considered his dignity as so far from excusing him from it that it rather obliged him to lead in it, and he thought it so far from lessening him that it really magnified him; therefore he stirred up himself to it and to make a business of it: Praise the Lord, O my soul! and he resolved to abide by it: "I will praise him with my heart, I will sing praises to him with my mouth.  Herein I will have an eye to him as the Lord, infinitely blessed and glorious in himself, and as my God, in covenant with me." 

 

It might be thought that he himself, having been so great a blessing to his country, should be adored, according to the usage of the heathen nations, who deified (sacred) their heroes, that they should all come and trust in his shadow and make him their stay and stronghold. "No," says David, "Put not your trust in princes (Ps 146:3), not in me, not in any other; do not repose your confidence in them; do not raise your expectations from them. Be not too sure of their sincerity; some have thought they knew better how to reign by knowing how to dissemble. Be not too sure of their constancy and fidelity; it is possible they may both change their minds and break their words." 

 

But, though we suppose them very wise and as good as David himself, yet we must not be too sure of their ability and continuance, for they are sons of Adam, weak and mortal. There is indeed a Son of man in whom there is help, in whom there is salvation, and who will not fail those that trust in him – He is Jesus Christ, the Son of David. But all other sons of men are like the man they are sprung of, who, being in honour, did not abide. 

 

PRAYER POINT: Lord, let your resurrection draw me closer to you in unbroken relationship[ with you in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Nehemiah 4-6.