The financial news continues to be precarious. Unemployment stays high and even rises. Businesses slow down or even close down. Another thing you don’t hear much about, but that is happening just the same, is the slow rise in the prices of most goods.

Put all of this together and you have the makings for some tense times. A question that comes to my mind repeatedly these days is, “Who, or what, do you trust?” If you place your trust in unsure sources you may be setting yourself up for disappointment.

For instance, the stock market is probably not a place to enter with the idea of getting rich, mainly because the thousands of others who are going into it with the same goals in mind. Many of them fail.

The lottery is not a place to enter in order to make money. I heard someone say that if every person who played this week’s lottery had 30 seconds of television time to tell his or her story, you would have to listen to more than nine years worth of stories before you got to the winner.

You may think you have security in your health or in your job, but even that is not always the case. Each day brings new changes, some for the worse. People who were healthy yesterday are sick today. People who were employed yesterday are unemployed today.

Let me stop right here and declare that my trust is in the Lord. “Some trust in chariots and some in horses (like money or health in these days), but we trust in the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7).

It is possible to read the Bible so much and know it so well that you end up missing the basics of what it says.

That’s how I found myself last week. I turned to Psalm 37:3-5, verses I can quote and have known for years. But I needed to hear them again, for the first time. They say, “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this.”

So I opened my Bible, put my finger on these words, and looked up.

I will keep you informed as to what happens as I continue to trust in the Lord.

Tom Rupp is a Bible Teacher at Capital Bible College. He can be reached at truppfolsom@yahoo.com or through his blog at thomaswrupp.blog-spot.com.