Some Boast in Chariots

[Christsfreeservant]

“Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;​

He will answer him from His holy heaven​

With the saving strength of His right hand.​

Some boast in chariots and some in horses,​

But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God.​

They have bowed down and fallen,​

But we have risen and stood upright. Save, O Lord;​

May the King answer us in the day we call.” (Psalms 20:6-9 NASB1995)​

Jesus Christ is to be our Only Lord and Savior and King. We are to have no other king, and no other savior but the Lord, and Him alone! So please do not be looking to any humans, no matter who they are, to be the ones to save you, as a people, and you, as the nations of this world, out of the mess that our world is presently in. Do not put your trust in “princes” who cannot save, which includes kings and queens and presidents and chancellors, et al. And don’t put your trust in your military, either, for they are not our heroes.

Especially in the times in which we now live, if we are at all spiritually discerning as to the times, we should recognize the signs of these last days before our Savior’s return. And please do not put your trust in any particular person or news site to tell you the truth, for lies and liars abound, and the news media lies to us, even if they might tell some of the truth, and so do pastors and politicians and actors, etc. For deception is all over the place now, especially with AI and the ability to make anything look real.

We get deceived, though, when we make men our “gods” and when we look to them for truth and for answers instead of looking only to God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. We get deceived when we put our trust in any particular human source and we convince ourselves that they have the truth, and others don’t. One of the biggest deceptions today is to teach us that only certain things are truth and if we hear anything else, we are to call it “conspiracy theory,” because they don’t want the people hearing the truth.

Now I am not suggesting that everything called “conspiracy theory” is, indeed, the truth, but that we, the people, are being trained when we hear certain things to shut them out and to disregard them as lies when, in fact, they may be the truth. This is happening in the church, as well, where they are calling the true gospel “works salvation” and while they are teaching an altered gospel message out of context which they are convincing people is the truth. And it appears the multitudes are believing the lie and not truth.

So, as people of God, who profess Jesus as Lord and as Savior of our lives, we should be looking only to God and to his word for truth, and we should be relying on the Spirit living within us to point us to all truth. Now the Lord may lead us to read other people’s writings on various topics, but we must read everything with spiritual discernment, praying for the Lord to show us what is truth and what are lies. But for this to work we must be walking in fellowship with the Lord in obedience to him and no longer in deliberate sin.

For if our minds are cluttered with the chatter of the world and of worldly minds and attitudes and belief systems, we are not going to hear clearly that inner voice which warns us against the lies and the liars and which leads us to what is truth. But all of us should be in the habit of not putting our trust in any one particular person or group of people or political party, but we must evaluate all that we hear and read in prayer and in the study of the Scriptures and with willing hearts and minds to unbelieve lies we believe.

With regard to salvation from sin, the Lord saves those who bow the knee to him in humble surrender to him as Lord of their lives, who willingly submit themselves to dying with Christ to sin and walking in obedience to his commands, in practice, by God’s grace, through faith, in the power of God. For if we profess faith in Christ, but then we continue living sinful lifestyles in direct opposition to the Lord and in defiance of his commands, and so we do not obey him, in practice, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

And with regard to the Lord saving us from our enemies, in the New Testament we are taught that if we follow Jesus with our lives that we will have enemies, and that we will be hated and persecuted as he was. And some of us they will put in prison, and they will beat us, and they will try all manner of evil against us to get us to renounce our faith in the Lord Jesus, and some of us they will put to death because we would not deny our Lord. But he will keep us from falling if we will remain steadfast in faith in him.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

The Rock of My Heart

Lyricist: Bassford, Matthew W.; Psalm 73
Composer: Schales, Glenda Barnhart

My Lord, I need nothing beside You;
Without You, I could not have stood.
Your promise is my hope and my refuge;
Your nearness, my strength and my good.

When I was distressed and embittered,
By things I could not understand,
Your presence was continually with me;
You always took hold of my hand.

I know that Your counsel will guide me
In wisdom, devotion, and love,
And afterward You’ll call me to glory
To dwell in Your presence above.

My heart may be broken within me;
My earthly strength may depart.
But You are my portion forever,
You are the Rock of my heart.

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Some Boast in Chariots
An Original Work / February 27, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love