Trust in God

trust in god

Faith simply means "trust". We can fully trust Jesus for our salvation. The New Testament clearly tells us that we are not justified by anything we can do, but simply by trusting in Christ the Son of God. The apostle Paul wrote: "So let us now believe that man should be righteous without the works of the law, by faith alone" (Romans 3,28).

Salvation does not depend on us at all, only on Christ! If we trust God, there is no need to try to hide any part of our life from him. We are not afraid of God even when we sin. Instead of fear, we trust him that he will never stop loving us, standing by us, and helping us along the way to overcome our sins.

If we trust in God, we can surrender ourselves to Him in complete confidence that He will transform us into the person we should be after His will. When we trust God, we discover that He is our highest priority, the reason, and the substance of our lives. As Paul said to the philosophers in Athens, we live, weave and are in God. He is more important to us than anything else - more valuable than possessions, money, time, reputation and even this finite life. We trust God knows what's best for us and we want to please him. He is our reference point, our foundation for a meaningful life.

We want to serve him, not out of fear, but out of love - not out of indignation, but joyfully out of free will. We trust his judgment. We trust his word and his ways. We trust him to give us a new heart, to make us increasingly like him, to make us love what he loves, and appreciate what he appreciates. We trust him that he always loves us and never gives us up.

Again, we would never be able to do any of this on our own. It is Jesus who does this in us and for us, from within, through the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. We are, at God's own will and purpose, His beloved children, redeemed and bought by the precious blood of Jesus.

The apostle Peter wrote: “For you know that you are not redeemed from your futile walk in the way of the fathers with perishable silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as an innocent and immaculate Lamb. Although he was chosen before the foundation of the world was laid, he is revealed at the end of time for your sake »(1. Petrus 1,18-20).

We can entrust God not only to our present, but also to our past and future. In Jesus Christ our Father in heaven redeems our whole life. Like a little child, fearless and content in the arms of his mother, we can safely rest in the love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

by Joseph Tkach