Vain hope

A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. - Psalm 33v17

People and their nations trust all kinds of thing for their safety. For example, part of the reason for the US Constitution, according to its preamble, was to 'provide for the common defence.' All nations have military or national defence forces. We have police departments and fire departments to keep us safe. We elect government officials to make decisions that are supposed to be for the public good.

Human protection and safety provisions are fine. They are fine and there is nothing wrong with them. God put government is place for the very purpose of doing some of these things.

The 'horse' is a vain hope for safety. It cannot deliver by its great strength. It doesn't take much to realise that the horse is a picture of military or policing might.

Because of the relative peace and security that Christians in the West have had for the last couple of hundreds of years we have come to think that the government and it's 'horses' should be on our side. We expect the government to protect and defend our Christian way of life and principles. We expect legislation to enforce our way of life.

Things are changing quickly in the West. We had better get used to it. Our faith cannot be in our government or its leaders to defend or protect us and our way of life. Society now seems intent on going against Christian principles and those who hold to them are mocked, deprived of rights, and in the very near future may face imprisonment.

The sooner we realise that our confidence in horses is misplaced the better. The time has come to quit trusting in 'vain hope' for safety and start trusting the One who can protect us.