In God We Trust

 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?