The Lord will be your confidence ... (Proverbs 3:26)

Believers facing crosswinds often say, "I'll get through this. I'm placing my trust in the Lord." I've made similar declarations and I suspect you have as well. But do we really place our confidence in the Lord when times are hard and the way forward is blurred?

Quite often we place our trust in other things. Secure employment or a healthy financial statement. An exceptional skill or talent. Our own intelligence or an impressive resume. Contacts with people of influence. Even a certain way of worshipping or praying.

As valuable as these are from our perspective, those of us who have been through crosswinds know that they are like thistles seeds in the wind compared to our personal relationship with God through Christ, the One who has our eternal best interest at heart.

Holy Spirit, when I am caught in the crosswinds or just enduring a gust, remind me to leave in my Father's hands both the present and the future. Only the Creator of the universe can bring good out of evil, order out of chaos, and peace out of turmoil. Amen.