I Can Trust Jesus – Part 2

By Ted Mock

July 29, 2026

Ruth 1:3 And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.  

In part one of this series, we looked at the example of Ruth who put her faith and trust in the God of Israel.  Today, I would like to examine four places we tend to put our trust in to find our security. When I started this study, I found that I often fall in one of the four more often than I’d like to admit. It might be you see yourself leaning on one of the four, too.

The first false security is in our possessions. The rich man in Luke 12 made that mistake, as did Israel when they thought the Ark in their possession would win the battle against the Philistines in I Samuel 4. The rich man should have trusted in God Who provided the riches, and Israel should have trusted in God, not the Ark, the symbol of God’s presence.

False security can also be placed in people instead of the Lord. People can become unreliable, undependable, unstable, or die. Only the Lord is constantly reliable and dependable.

Another false security is trusting in our own power and abilities. In John 15 Jesus said, “Without me, ye can do nothing.”  Trusting our own powers is a sinful pride issue. This one  hits too close to home!

Finally, we tend to trust too much in our plans. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail—but our plans, schemes, and plots can easily fail when we stray from God’s plans clearly spelled out in Scripture, and the principles contained in the Bible.  One example—man can trust in his own plan of salvation, trusting in his works, his goodness, or heritage, but only God’s plan of salvation by grace, through faith will get him into heaven.

Reflection—Let’s put our trust in the Lord!