Whom Do You Trust?

   In whom do your put your trust? That question might have a deeper meaning as it depends on what you are leaving to someone else to watch over. My trust in someone else might depend on if the article left in the care of someone else could be replaced or not. I was a bassoon player up until I left the U. S. Navy. My bassoon had some special changes made to it by our excellent repair staff at the school of music. It was one of a kind and I would recognize it if I ever saw it again. Up until the time I left the navy, I would not trust my bassoon to the safe keeping of many people. I would have to know them rather well before I would entrust them with my treasured bassoon. The list of acceptable people in which to trust gets smaller and smaller depending upon the value of the item you are about to leave with them. That brings me to the question, “To Whom will you trust with your own soul?” Psalm 18:2 says, “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”

         Even the Lord Jesus Christ made the comparison between all of the things of the world and the soul. What good would it be to have all the riches of the world and still forfeit your soul to eternal damnation? Christ asked the question, “What profit would it be to have gained the whole world and still to lose you own soul.” As you might well imagine, the list of acceptable persons in which to trust is really small. In fact, there is only One in whom I would trust for the keeping of my soul. God and God alone is the Only One in which to place the trust for the keeping of your soul. There are perhaps many who do not even regard the fact that we have a soul and therefore, the question does not concern them but that does not deny the fact that we are different than the rest of living organisms in the world. Men and women today seem to put their trust in their own imaginations as to what heaven is like and how to get there. When you read the obituaries in the newspaper, you can see that people's concept of heaven is what they have manufactured in their own mental process. One needs to compare what God says about heaven with one's own concept of heaven and see if they agree. Go with what the Bible says about it and you won't go wrong. So, in the end, I will put the trust of the keeping of my soul with the Only One Who is capable of keeping it and that is the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. He is the Only One Who has the credentials of an empty tomb to guarantee that what He said is true. You see, the list is indeed small and has only one name on it, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. You might trust your neighbor with your lawn mower, your spouse with you children, your doctor with your appendix and your dentist with your molars, but your soul can only be trusted to God Himself. Praise God for the fact that He is our Trust not only for our soul but for everything that we have and ever hope to have.