What Can You Trust?

A friend and I had a good laugh over a recent text message. After sharing an answer to prayer, her closing comment was, “Our Lord does work in mysterious ways.” At least that’s what she meant to say.  

The message I received said, “Our Lord does work in mistletoe ways.” I was pondering the mistletoe message when she texted her correction. 

I have learned to check my auto-correct. I’ve sent garbled messages with one-word changes, too. Modern technology is supposed to make life easier, but it doesn’t.

In the past two weeks, I’ve spent hours with one tech company, trying to update my accounts. I have two-step verification with several companies, but theirs seemed unusually challenging.

Technology is here to stay. My husband used to say, “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken.” I try, but always being told to go “online” is simply tiresome.

When E-books came out, publishers thought they’d lose a lot of money. Time proved people still preferred the printed page. That’s me! I like to pick up a book, read it, lay it down, and pick it up later. So easy! 

The best seller of all time still remains popular in print. I can read scriptures on my cell phone, but I have a satisfying *hard-cover study Bible. It comes complete with explanatory notes, cross-references, a concordance, Bible charts, and maps.

Since childhood, I have read, studied, and trusted God’s Word. He gives a lovely illustration of its trustworthiness in Isaiah 55:8-11 (NLT). I’ve always relied on verse eleven: **It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it (NLT).

The King James Version says: ***It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (KJV).

In our fast-paced, ever-changing world, it’s nice to have something we can trust. I have put my hope in God’s Word more times than I could ever tell. There is one thing I can say, however, “God always keeps His Word.”  

*Life Application Study Bible is an edition of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, Tyndale House Publishers, 2007. All Rights Reserved.

**Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright . . . 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by Permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Carol Stream, IL 60188. All Rights Reserved.

***King James Version, YouVersion app.

Pixabay Illustration, Trust, Reveal Identity, John Hain