Wednesday, September 24, 2025
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5
Can We Trust God?
Trusting someone can be scary, especially if you do not know them well. In the world we live in today we seem to be overwhelmed with people trying to scam and steal from us. We trust family and friends and think we they are safe people to trust and be vulnerable with, but they prove us wrong hurting us in some way or betraying us. It makes it hard to trust anyone.
Trusting God means letting go and relinquishing control. Most of us have a problem with relinquishing control at some level, especially when it comes to trusting God – who we have never seen. How can we learn to trust him?
Insecurity keeps us from being intimate with people – and God. You will never have a true intimate relationship with someone if you don’t know how they feel about you. If you are not sure about how God feels about you, you won’t draw near to him, you will distance yourself. You have to be absolutely confident about how he feels about you, and if we will believe it, he has proven over and over again how he feels about us. Growing in a relationship with God will bring the confidence and security we need to know God on an intimate level, understanding him and believing he keeps his promises because we have seen it with our own eyes and read the stories. Knowing God intimately also means we will understand his character.
Attributes of God are characteristics of his nature. The five verses above tell us much about God’s nature and prove why we can trust him.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. God is eternal. He has always been since the beginning and will always be. The Word in this verse is God. Jewish Rabbis referred to God as “the word of God.” Greek philosophers believed the Word was the power that held everything in perfect order, controlling all things.
All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. God is sovereign, supreme over everything. He is over everything because he created all things. There is nothing in the universe that was not created by him. He is sovereign overall.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it. God is omnipotent meaning he is all-powerful over everything, including Satan. He has overcome darkness for all time and without him we are lost in the darkness, dead in our sin.
What is it about what God did on the cross that proves how he feels about us?
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Sonfrom the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
Because he loved us, God himself put on flesh as a baby and came to live with us on earth so we could relate to him on a personal level. God came to earth through Jesus to reveal his nature - love, compassion, and grace. Through the life of Jesus God was revealed. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus we have been redeemed so that we could have a relationship with him and live with him in heaven forever as his adopted sons and daughters.
The greatest display of his love for us is the cross. He suffered and died in our place and restored and reconciled us back to God. Because of this sacrifice we have peace with God.
God is immutable, meaning He is unchanging; this in turn means that God is absolutely reliable and trustworthy - the only person we can truly trust. People will hurt us and fail us. He never will. He never stops loving us or changes his mind about us. Our redemption and salvation in him are forever and his love and mercy for us are forever. That equals a God we can trust and a Heavenly Father we can go to, lean into, and call on knowing that he hears and cares about every little thing in our lives.
Do you find it hard to trust people? God?
How have you seen his attributes and promises manifested in your life?
