“In you, LORD my God, I put my trust” (Psalm25:1).

What does it mean to trust God?

First, you have to know WHO it is you are putting your trust in. The one we trust is God. What kind of a God is he?

He is a God who absolutely loves us. There is nothing short of sin that God will not do to demonstrate his unconditional love for us.

Not only does God love us with an unconditional love, our God wants what is best for us. Nothing pleases God more than to see us living our best lives, becoming best selves.

Not only does God love us, not only does he want what is best for us, he knows better than us. You can absolutely trust God because he is trustworthy in every sense. He loves us. He wants what is best for us. And he knows what is best, even better than we do.

Secondly, what does it mean to trust God?

Love what Augustine said about this. He said:

Trust the past to God’s mercy,
the present to God’s love,
the future to God’s providence.

There is nothing in the past that God has not forgiven. It is absolutely true that there is much in our past that condemns us. But that’s all forgiven. When we repent and ask God for forgiveness, all of that is done away with as if we had never sinned. That’s good news. That’s mercy.

Every single day is a gift of God’s love. God gave us this day so that we might rejoice and be glad in it. God gave us the gift of this day so that God can use us to be an agent of blessing to the people around us. Trust God with today and all that it has to bring.

No one knows what the future holds. But we know who holds the future and who is present in our future. God is there. Not only is God present in our future, but he is working things out in our day to bring about God’s kingdom. God is actively at work in the present to ensure that the promises of God are our future reality.

Trust in God. Fully rely on God. Lean on him. Rest in him. He is LORD our God.

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means God with us)” (Matthew 1:23).

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Revelation 22:12).

There is no “there” where God is not there.

God tells us that he is the Alpha and the Omega. Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. There is nothing in the created world from “A” to “Z” where God is not already present.

God tells us that he is the first and the last. There is no time which God is not present. Theologians use the word “omnipresent” to describe God’s presence. There is no time – past, present, and the future – where God does not rule and reign.

God tells us that he is the beginning and the end. All of creation and all of eternity are God’s handiwork. God exists beyond time, beyond creation.

Why? What does all this mean? What does any of this have to do with us?

Because God desires to be Immanuel – God with us. For there is never a there where God does not desire you to be there.

God loves you. And it was this love for you that drove him to the cross to bear the penalty of sin so that we can be reunited with him through the resurrection and the empty tomb. God is crazy about you. You are the object of his delight.

Friends, know this:

God is with you,
God is for you.
There is never a “there” where God is not already there.
Rest in God.
Trust God.

“Jesus replied, ‘Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?'” (Mark 12:24).

The word of God is indispensable for the follower of Christ.

Jesus tells us there are two reasons why people are in error:

• First, you do not know the Scriptures
• Second, because you do not know the power of God

When you do not know the Scriptures, you do not know God. There is no other way to know who God is apart from the word of God. Knowing God is not about who I think God is, it is about who the Scriptures declare who God is. Knowing God is not about how I feel about God. Knowing God has nothing to do with how I feel about him. It has everything to do with who God reveals who is through his word.

The word of God is indispensable to the follower of Christ because God’s word reveals who he is, what his character is like. The more we know about how God has interacted with his people through the word, the more we are able to recognize God at work in our lives today. God will not act in a way that is contrary to the way God is described in his word.

Knowing God’s word is knowing God.

Second, the reason why we are in error is because we do not know the power of God. If we only knew how much God loves us we would fully trust God. Unlike all other religions that tell us how we ought to live, the God of scripture teaches us about a God who showed up in the flesh to submit to the very laws of God we are subject to so that God himself can show us how to live.

The power of God is expressed in sending his Son to live for us, die for us, and rise for us. The more we understand the power of God’s love for sinners the more we trust God.

The key to living a life of purpose and to live life the way it was meant to be lived is to measure our life to the rule of Christ.

“Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?”

This is another fantastic verse to memorize.

“Ignorance of the Bible is the root of all error. Knowledge of the Bible is the best antidote against all heresies” (J. C. Ryle).