The Only One Left For Us to Trust


What do you believe when you say: I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth? 

  • That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and all that is in them, and who still upholds and governs them by His eternal counsel and providence, is, for the sake of Christ His Son, my God and my Father. 
In Him I trust so completely 

  • as to have no doubt that He will provide me with all things necessary for body and soul, 
  • and will also turn to my good whatever adversity He sends me in this life of sorrow. 
  • He is able to do so as almighty God, 
  • and willing also as a faithful Father.
For the Bible Tells Me So...
Romans 8:28 
  • And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Genesis 18:14 
  • “Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” 
Romans 8:31-39 
  • What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 
  • He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?  
  • Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 
  • Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 
  • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 
  • As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 
  • Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 
  • For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 
  • nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 6:32,33 
  • “For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 
  • But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you…” 
Matthew 7:9-11 
  • “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 
  • Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 
  • If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! …”
The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 9

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