Welcome back my friends it is time for the morning mindset. I hope you are ready to get your minds aligned to the truth of God.

Let's just take your breath, let's clear everything way and prepare to focus.

And let the scripture save us today.

Today I want to take a small selection from the end of Psalm chapter 20 for us to consider.

This is what it says in verse 7 through 8.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.

Now let's think about that for a moment because We rise and stand upright.

Now let's think about that for a moment because we don't deal with chariots and horses in our day and age. You see chariots and horses were the symbols of the military might or strength of a nation back in the day

that David wrote this.

You think about it, the men would go out to battle and they would be in chariots. They would be riding on horses.

And the more mounted or riding soldiers there were in an army, the more intimidating it would seem to the opponents.

And so David is pointing out that many people trust in appearances of power like that, in appearances of might and authority. And that tendency has never gone away. It is still the same

in our day. I mean let's take some examples from our day and age. We have

military stockpiles that nations rely on very similar context to what David is talking about. But let's try to make it a little more practical.

It may not be an aggressive or offensive kind of thing that we're looking at it may be a defensive kind of thing

a security of sorts do you know where I'm going here a bank account or

investments or a salary, those may be the things that we are more

likely to depend on. But yet there are other things that we depend on. We could be leaning entirely on our infrastructure,

our electrical grid, our utility system. Just assuming it's always going to be there, it's always going to be working, and

that we can rely on that and depend on that and build on that toward the future. And that is a place that we put our trust. Now recognize that some of those

examples may seem a little far-fetched and it may seem well what are you getting at?

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