Trusting God

Trust: what is it? Having confidence in the reliability of something or someone. Of course reliability is that nothing will change. What's there now will be there next time, and it will always be there.

Revelation 1:8" I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

This passage is a statement of reliability!  To put this in perspective which we can all understand, we all want a reliable car. We want it to be there when we need it, be found at the same place each time, always perform the same for you and for anyone else who may drive it, drive smoothly, never act up, and get you to a destination of your choice! Now God's so much more than a mere car, but don't we all want a God who has those same characteristics?  We trust a car which is reliable. We can trust God for his reliability!

Isaiah 26:4 "Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength..."

Here we have "trust" associated with God's reliability. He is there forever; was always and always will be! Then it is noted that the Lord is everlasting. That's "forever" defined. There is no end to "forever"!

Everlasting and forever are profound terms. God was before things were and will be there after all things are gone. Before even dark space became into existence God was there! "But", you say "darkness is nothingness!" The very space in which the cosmos was placed was placed there. Since space holds things, it is a container. Empty containers are a "thing", but this container has no walls. It goes on forever. It's distance, if traveled is "everlasting"! Truly God is omnipotent. As Revelation 1:8 says he's "the Almighty"! He created the complex things which we can't even comprehend.

We can trust God because he did it. When we're babies, we stand up for the first time because we trust gravity. Although it will push us down if we waver, standing tall is because gravity gives us a sense of direction. God made the gravity. Besides God, gravity is the most powerful thing in existence; even more so than nuclear energy! Yet babies have a personal relationship with it! So why is it so implausible that we can't have a personal relationship with the Creator?

We see what is out there and realize that chance had little to do with what we see. Any fool should know that the painting which meets his eyes was painted by an Almighty Artist! Scripture tells us why we should trust in God:

Romans 1:19 "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse..."

Translation: Trust God because he did create it all. Trust him because he is almighty!

Those who have adapted evolution to the creation story fail to trust God! It seems to some that God is not almighty, but is limited by their own belief system. We have eyes, but fail to see!

Matthew 13:15 "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

Trusting God is how we're converted. Conversion is changing unbelief into belief. The component of "belief" which converts is "trust"! Since even the demons believe, our belief must be one of trust.

 Seeing nothing and hearing nothing is the "self's" defense mechanism. If a person rejects what they could see and here; the things around us, then that person would trust an Almighty God. Even evolution is man's attempt to deny the omnipotence of God, thus denying him of their trust!

There are three entities which are candidates for trust: the self, others or God. The "self" and "others" are subject to deception by evil. God is not! Others teach that the things of nature just happened. The "selfs" of the masses believe that falsehood. God says he did it! I wasn't there and neither were others. God was there. Trust him!

Doubt of God's "Almightiness" and "All-knowingness" does two things: it reveals denial on our part and it minimizes trust in God. Doubters accept the notion from dreamers of how the dream came about. Those who trust take God's word for it!

 I'm an engineer. Being of that education and vocation, I was trained well in the physical sciences and mathematics. Not only that, but I've been taught and can calculate nuclear equations. I understand Einsteins's Theory of General  Relativity.  What he calculated God created. It's Einstein's theory of what God made happen. I trust the God part, but Einstein could be wrong! However, here is what Einstein admitted:

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. "

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

What the genius himself believed is what today's scientists disbelieve. Einstein's theories and mathematics can be taught in school, but his belief in a supreme God cannot be, although what Einstein learned was that his theories supported the concept of God!

No, Einstein didn't believe in a God which cares personally about him, for he denied the "Why" God created! Surely God had a reason for creating it all. We are the reason! God cared about us enough to want us to be. He created an existence for us to inhabit. God wanted us to enjoy his artwork with him, not wanting to merely wanting to enjoying his magnificence alone! The Creator God, Albert, is a personal God just as mighty gravity too is a personal thing!

Trust has continuity. It's knowing that God is reliable. His creation testifies to his awesomeness, power and durability. Although no words can explain God, there are no other explanations for what is. Why trust "chance" when God can be trusted. "Chance" has no power at all. "Chance" can't be trusted!

Figure #1: Pillars of Creation

Figure #1 is a photograph of the "Pillars of Creation" from the Hubbell telescope. This is what God is talking about in Roman 1:20:

 "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made..."