“He will not fail.” Isaiah 42:4
Everything man-made will let us down. Sooner or later, everything man-made will reveal its hidden weaknesses. Only Christ will not fail.
I remember my dad saying this to me years ago. I didn’t object outwardly, but inwardly I disagreed with him. I resisted the implications for the man-made things in my own life I was depending on too much — my man-made ecclesiastical system, my man-made theological system, and other things. But I was wrong, and Dad was right.
Remember the Roadrunner cartoons where Wyle E. Coyote runs off the cliff or has an anvil fall on him or opens a door and the dynamite explodes in his face? Hilarious. And true. It happens to us all. Man-made things go boom. They cannot be trusted. Respected, but not trusted.
The only unfailing object of our trust is Christ himself. Theological and ecclesiastical systems have their uses, but also their limits. The risen Lord Jesus Christ who is and always will be with us as our gracious Ally — only he has no limits, only he cannot disappoint.
“My soul finds rest in God alone.” Psalm 62:1