Isaiah 57:13

Here, finally, is the answer to the prayer that Israel, desperate and defeated, will cry out. 'Let thy companies deliver thee,' God says with grim irony. Call on all the forces you have gathered, your idols, your alliances, your armies, your schemes. See what good they do. The wind will scatter them. Vanity will take them, vanity, the nothingness that they always were. Idols are wind. Alliances without truth are wind. False righteousness is wind. And when judgment comes, the wind will blow it all away. But then comes the pivot, the promise that makes this more than judgment: 'He that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.' This is the covenant promise renewed. Those who trust, not in their own works or in false gods, but in God Himself, will inherit. They will possess the land. They will inherit the holy mountain, the place of God's dwelling. This is not earned; it is promised to those who trust.

We live in the age where this promise has been spiritualized and expanded: we inherit not just a geographical land but the kingdom of God, the presence of God, the life of God. We do not even need to have our companies scattered to learn the lesson Israel learns the hard way. We can learn it now: that trust in anything but God is trust in the wind. And trust in God is the only investment that yields real returns, real inheritance, real lasting possession.