Our trust is in God alone

Ps 62 5 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.

6 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. 

 

The Psalmist is chiding himself to trust in God alone.  Let me give you a testimony.  When I got married it was to a woman who is very social. Let me just say one thing to make this short. My wife and I were so like one another ..not in personality but in our view of life that we raised our family with the philosophy that child growth is developed by an adult guiding the child by teaching and social interaction. The family is not really a unit or a secluded society but its unity is developed in a kind of caravan of like minded families. So we believe that the old norms of family were more important than the organized religious connections. Kind of like living in the 50s in family structure while living in the present. 

  

This is why I believe what I have just written. Because the verse above is in the context of the culture of communication. You will find this teaching throughout the Psalm. What do the Psalms teach about being like minded? They teach that all men are examples by blindness. God has made us all to be comfortable in our own skin by being absolute convinced that we are right. This is why the Psalms teach that its dangerous to just assume that if we act correctly that we are right. Because the truth is that we all would die for what we believe even if it was wrong. The problem of our blindness is not really that we havent accumulated enough applied knowledge in order to be right , but we are products ..i dont mean that we are made by our view of the world but the Psalms teach that the christian view of control and ownership in the absolute perfect world is Gods creative visible acts viewed by us in the present in the success of how all people communicate. The perfect world would be every person communicating from learning and applying Gods word. We must admit that sin has eroded the normal language of Gods kingdom. So you cant divorce the eroding of the culture from the danger that it creates in christian institutions. 

 

This is why the Psalms describe the personal human experience in light of the health of the nation of Israel. As Israel moved away from God so our personal religious experience in this world is compared to Israel being dispersed among the nations. So we see in this verse the Psalmist is speaking from experience of this uncertain life and the problems of trusting in men. Let me say that Ive observed God working in a few ways. Sometimes He works methodically in a persons life. They start from one point and grow through all their lives. But some people God does some very profound works and then He down the road it becomes methodical. Some people look at the past to support their suffering and the ones who are growing a slow and methodical rate are always taking about the future. We must understand that people come from different growth patterns and according to the way that God has made them. Some people demand a lot of intellectual stimulus and others are satisfied with the basics. But the Psalms teach there is no bliss in ignorance. God has made it so that every person can create a lot of disorder in being unlearned. At the same time every person acts according to their philosophy that they would die for it even if its wrong. The only security that we have is to understand where they are coming from and to know enough that we have a long term view.  This is why we need this verse.