Some trust in Chariots – Psalms 20:7a

We have come along way when it comes to technology.  We can send an email around the world in a matter of seconds. We can send money, sell, buy and trade across the globe with the click of a button.  We can hook up a security system in our houses and check on it via audio and video streaming directly to our phones.  We can have access to emergency help using the cell phone at all hours by dialing 911.  We can own a gun to protect us from attackers or home invaders.  We have it all figured out, all planned down to the minute detail. Our technology, our machines will save us.  Some trust in Chariots.

All throughout history people have trusted in the work of their hands.  We design and build then we put faith in what we have made to keep us safe, to make us wealthy (oh yeah money is devise of man too), to give us power, etc. However, I have yet to see a machine that gives eternal life, a machine that can raise the dead (I mean the “graveyard dead” as Jerry Clower would say), a machine that can truly change a person from the inside out, or a machine that offers true peace.  Yes we may be able to live a few years longer, keep our beauty a little longer, and even be able to protect ourselves to a certain extent.  Nevertheless when all is said and done our machines will fail and pass away.

It amazes me how we think so highly of our designs. We pretend that we had an original idea and it is a great thing to be worshiped.  The great weapons of today and the golden calf of the children of Israel are all simply our attempt to do what God has already done (Exodus 32:4). We mimic and copy and imagine our creations to be supreme; we put faulty faith in the work of our hands. Even our most sophisticated computer can not compare to the complexity of the human brain. Yet some will lay everything they have at the altar of technology, machinery, etc.; the altar of man’s creation.

Pharaoh trusted in his chariots when he chased the children of Israel whom God had liberated from him.  He came out with all his strength and power to destroy them, but not in rebellion of man; in rebellion of God. Pharaoh trusted that what he had created by the work of his hands would prevail against God.  Instead he and all of his chariots were destroyed.

Do you trust in chariots today?  Do you believe that enough money, enough stuff, enough power will keep you safe and fulfill you?  Do not think I am saying that these things are evil; I am not.  Things we create should be used but not worshiped. When our trust is in chariots we will always be gravely disappointed.

Pray

God You are holy!  I praise You that You are not bound by the devises of men. Help me to avoid trusting in things; in chariots. I know that all knowledge and all good come from You, so help me to use and glorify You for and with the creations of man. Strengthen me that I may share the gospel and lead others away from the worship of that which will pass away. I love You and I trust You! In the sweet name of Jesus I ask and pray, Amen.