Where do You Find Hope?

Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.

(Psalm 146:3-5 NLT)

Where do you place your hope? Who do you find hope in? I am reminded of Proverbs 19:21;

Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. (NIV)

Men can plan change. They can say they will change and that they support change and they can even have a strong desire to change. They can come up with all sorts of ideas to support change. Just like the passage says, when that person dies, all of their best made plans go with them. Since we are but a vapor, why is it that there are so many of who are quick to place all of our confidence in mere man and we are reluctant to place all our hope and confidence in God? Sure you can see these people. Those in powerful roles are good at making themselves seen, but at the end of the day, all those people that you place on a pedestal, and all those people you idolize and wish you could be like, are finicky, finite, limited, sinful, human beings whose life on this earth is very temporary in the grand scheme of things. Some people change their mind more than they change their shirt. God is eternal, forever, unlimited, perfect, holy, and all powerful; just to name a few. In the end, God's purposes will prevail over any plans that man could possibly conjure up. Why not place all your hope and trust and confidence in Him? The one who will never fail you, abandon you, lie to you, or break promises. After the end of a long crazy day, who do you find your hope in?