Confidence on the Rock

The LORD will work out his plans for my life (Psalm 138:8). The confidence the psalmist expresses here was most certainly a divine confidence. He did not say, "I have grace enough to work out my life ... my faith is so steady that it will never stumble... my love is so warm it will never grow cold ... my resolution is so firm that nothing can move it." No, his dependence was solely on the Lord. If we indulge any confidence that is not grounded on the Rock of Ages, that confidence is worse than a dream—it will fall back on us and cover us with its ruins, to our confusion and sorrow. Everything nature weaves, time will unravel, to the eternal perplexity of those who trusted the material.

—Charles Spurgeon