Psalm 62:9

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Who do you rely on? When the going gets tough, who do you look to to sort things out? The government? The scientists? Or closer to home, a husband or parents? Perhaps many of us rely on ourselves. We’re told that if we simply believe in ourselves we can do anything.

David knows that none of us has the power that we think we have. Recently, we've been reminded that even world leaders and governments are powerless against a microscopic virus. All their apparent power is 'a lie'. And all of us are but 'a breath' - not the powerful, substantial, world-changing people we aspire to be. But fleeting, temporary, weak mortals.

Let's not put our confidence in ourselves, or in others. Why would we want to lean on 'a breath' when could lean on the rock that is God?

It may be hard to admit that we’re less powerful than we think we are. But it makes it all the more amazing that God would love fleeting, insubstantial 'breaths' enough to give us solid, everlasting resurrection bodies in which to spend forever with him. Let's praise him for that today!