Quotes about Reliance

The Gospels are also anonymous, and the names attached to them come to us from early church tradition. Likely none was an eyewitness. The writers relied on stories of Jesus that were circulating orally, perhaps (or probably) going back to what eyewitnesses had seen.

Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.