Do Not Hope in Men - Proverbs 11:7

Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of their power comes to nothing. (Proverbs 11:7)

Dear Father,

It is our recurring weakness to place our hope in human beings. Whether it is in our spouses, our parents, our children, political leaders or church leaders. Because you are not visible to us, we, like the children of Israel, want a king. We want someone in whom we can entrust our future. Someone who can lead us. Someone who can inspire us. But though your scripture tells us to take note of those living rightly as a good pattern, only in you is to be our hope as only you are our King, our Redeemer.

I pray that these little ones develop a healthy perspective of human leaders and examples. I pray that they neither becomes skeptics of others, nor blindly trust them. I pray that they look for the best in people, that they try to pattern the best examples in other people, but that they always understand that any man or woman can fall and all are sinful. By that wisdom I pray that their walk is never derailed when someone they trust, falls. That they not become disillusioned when "good" people disappoint them by their actions and attitudes. I pray instead that they develop a strong trust in you as their father and in your Son as their example of how to live on this earth and in your Spirit who can empower them to follow that example.

Amen