God is Trustworthy
Sunday, January 30, 2011
If God was not good all the time, we could never trust Him. But the God that Jesus reveals would never do anything to harm us.
Jesus reveals the nature of God in the context of His prayer from Matthew 6:9-13:
Our Father in heaven ....................................God is near
hallowed be your name, .................................God is holy
your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven ..........God is powerful
Give us today our daily bread ............................God provides
Forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors..........................God forgives
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one .........................God protects
"God's Fatherhood must define what human fatherhood ought to look like, and not the reverse." James Bryan Smith
We can trust God because Jesus trusted God, even as He entered into His suffering. (Matthew 26:36-44)
We also have "cups" in our lives. Our "cup" is anything that we struggle with accepting as our lot in life. And our "cup" is usually the thing that makes it difficult to believe that God is good.
Jesus knew He was loved by His Father and was therefore able to TRUST him through the pain.
The reason Jesus could trust God in his darkest hour is because he had lived closely with His good and beautiful Father for all eternity. he knew the BLESSINGS of relationship with the Father.
May we TRUST in the God that we KNOW TO BE GOOD!