Really? Do we really trust God? Though it only took our national
congress one hundred years to have some kind of motto like this
imprinted on our monetary system, and then declared our national
motto, how long does it take to have “in God we trust” written on
our hearts? Or in our thoughts, our words, our actions?
The first commandments God wrote out for His people to follow was “I
AM YOUR GOD Who delivered you out of the house of bondage. You shall
have no other gods before Me. Nor shall you make any graven image nor
shall you worship them. For I AM a jealous GOD.”
Having the money in hand does not mean having God in heart. Were that
so all money bearing God's Name would be used for God's glory, not
just some of it. It is the heart that declares who its God is, not
the coin of the land. Such an outcry in recent years over whether or
not such wording should or should not be used is a distraction from
the important question: who is your God? In whom do you trust? Where
are your loyalties? Who do you turn to when your life is in danger?
Or your children's safety? Who or what do you trust in when your
world is turned upside down by tragedy of death, weather-related
disasters, wartime wounds inflicted and received? Who is your God?
What does it mean to trust? Searching Roget's Thesaurus, I see that
trust can be described quite a few different ways, but in regards to
the phrase on the table currently, trust mean: believe, place
confidence in; 'bet your bottom dollar on', rely on, depend on, count
on, expect; build on, have faith in, confide in. Trust means: give to
for safekeeping; assign, commission, commit, delegate, put into the
hands of. Trust means: believe the goodness, realness of;
acknowledge, recognize, approve; have no doubt, be convinced of. And
these are only a few of the definitions regarding trust as a verb. If
that is what the intent was when first suggested in 1861, then when
did the USA stop trusting in God as a whole? Did it ever? Did this
nation every really trust God for everything that it needed? No.
Isaiah 42:17 “They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly
ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images,
'You are our gods.” Money really does not grow on trees. It is
minted. The metals used to make it are melted down, molten, and
imprinted with the words and images, on varying sizes and colors and
shapes to form American money. Yet it is not God who is trusted, it
is money itself and what money stands for.
Power. Fame. Fortune. Glory. Wealth. Success. These can only be
obtained in this world with money, a lot of money. Some believe they
can even buy their way into God's presence. The very fact that you
are alive is going to get you into God's presence, but it is not your
life that will keep you there: it is the eternal life of Jesus
Christ, granted to they who believe on The Lord Jesus Christ for
their personal Lord and Savior. See, this trust issue is based on a
personal relationship with God's only begotten Son Jesus Christ.
Though God has many sons and daughters, He has only one ONLY BEGOTTEN
SON. And that Son's Name is JESUS CHRIST.
He is all the glory and wealth and success and power believers will
ever need. Believers like me.
It is not the phrase on my money that reminds me my trust lies in
God, it is God's Word, which was written not only in my Bible, but on
my heart, my soul, my mind. In God I Trust. Do you?
