Trustworthiness is a place of loving devotion whereby a sense of safety, peace and kindship are in effect. Without trustworthiness, love would be moot, because it wouldn’t be true. We know that we are loved by God because He is trustworthy.
How do we know He is trustworthy?
“Faithful and absolutely trustworthy is He who is calling you [to Himself for your salvation], and He will do it [He will fulfill His call by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own].”
1 Thessalonians 5:24 (AMP)
Weaving throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the message of God’s absolute trustworthiness is speaking directly and indirectly to our untrusting hearts, calling to us to believe in Him, to go all-in, to have confidence that His promises are genuine, sincere. He wants us to ask Him for His provision—not from a demanding, cocky “my way or the highway” posture, but from a soul that openly desires relationship with the Only One capable of perfect trustworthiness. He has proven His faithfulness to generation after generation; the Bible says a humble heart that seeks Him will be satisfied.
How do we know the Bible is true?
Let’s make it personal. If I start with nothing but His promise, and He provides in a way that only He can, then I will know for myself if He is what He claims to be. We do not put God to the test; we simply ask in humility with an expectant heart.
In April 2006, God called Alex and I to move to Peru as missionaries. We were tasked with raising $10,000 seed money, as well as paying off $16,000 in debt. In October 2006, I was handed a check from a car accident settlement in the amount of $16,000. By moving day in 2007, we had our $10,000 ready to go. God proved Himself 100% faithful.
So. Will we trust Him? All-in?
“Trusting God is two-fold—we must trust that His wisdom is best and live accordingly, and we must constantly pursue removing all the distracting idols keeping us from wholehearted devotion. Trusting God must involve both our actions and our devotion. Remember, the Lord longs for a heart wholly fixed on Him.”
Terkeurst, Lysa. Trustworthy: Overcoming Our Greatest Struggles to Trust God (Nashville: LifeWay Press, 2020), p. 117.
Devotion is a choice of the heart, the focus of our affection. Action is the outward evidence of the heart’s focus. Choosing to walk where the Holy Spirit directs, obeying God’s instructions, surrendering to His plan—this is how we earn His trust. We don’t have to earn His love; His unconditional love is a gift—His heart’s devotion to us, to guard and protect and watch over us. But we do have to earn His trust in the small things so that He will trust us with the bigger ones.
I’m preaching to myself.
My small thing: every morsel that goes into my mouth. This is His test for me. Will I seek His instruction, then obey? Honestly, eating is sometimes the most mindless of activities in my day; stopping to ask God’s approval or directions is much harder than it sounds. When my blood sugar starts dropping, my will says, “Grab whatever looks enticing!” Then 1 Corinthians 10:23—how all things are permissible, but not all things are beneficial—takes a spin in my brain. The lower my blood sugar gets, the more my brains get scrambled. I’m going to have to choose ahead of time—now—if I will follow Christ’s footsteps in the direction that they go. In prayer He has told me that “surrender is victory” and that I need to depend on Heaven’s strategy, not any human strategy, for losing weight. So I wait on Him for step-by-step guidance on the unfolding strategic path.
Will He take care of me?
“He satisfies all who love and trust Him, and He keeps every promise He makes.”
Psalms 111:5 (TPT)
If the King of the universe said it, I believe it. Will you? What’s your “small thing”? Leave a comment and let me know so I can pray for your faithfulness and His guidance.
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