CLE/G7 BY: BRO.

FERDINANDUS MARUNG, CRS

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Aemilianum College Inc.
Rizal St. Piot, Sorsogon City

Lesson 8
TRUSTING GOD THROUGH HIS WORDS
1. OBJECTIVE PLAN:
This lesson will guide the students to examine their trust, their faith,
and their belief towards the Almighty God. The Words of God in the
Holy Bible becomes the tools for them to deepen their reflections on
the goodness and the beauty of Faith that they have as a follower of
Christ.
2. DEFINITION
Trusting God is an essential element of true and saving faith that
looks to God and finds peace, strength, contentment, and much more
in him, and all that he has done, is doing, and will do, both now and
forever in his Son Jesus Christ.
3. CONTEN OF THIS LESSON
In this lesson we look at what it means to trust God by observing how
trust relates to saving faith. Then we will trace how trust grows out of
a knowledge of God, his promises, and his actions. We conclude by
looking at some biblical examples of trust and how it should manifest
itself in our lives as Christians. Trusting God is one of those truths we
think we understand until we are called upon to do it, and then we
discover that there is more to it than we realized. Trusting God is an
aspect of saving faith which has been said to have three elements to it :
knowledge, assent, and trust. Trusting God is essential to Christian
life. This, however, does not mean it is easy to trust God, especially in a
world that questions the sanity of trusting him at almost every turn.
Nevertheless, trust God we must, and the Bible has much to
say that will help us no matter what our circumstances.
4. WE ARE ASKED TO TRUST IN GOD
The first thing to understand is that we are commanded to trust the
Lord. In Psalm 4:5 David tells the reader to “offer right sacrifices and
put your trust in the Lord.” Proverbs 3:5-6 exhorts us to “Trust in the
Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In
all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths.”
In fact, the Christian life is one of trust in God from the beginning to the
end. In its inception we repent and believe the gospel (Mark 1:15) and
then all the way through we are called upon to believe God, and to
believe in the Lord Jesus who is the way, the truth, and the life (John

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14:1, 6). As the writer to the Hebrews reminds us, “without faith it is
impossible to please God, for whoever would draw near to God must
believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (11:6).
5. GOD IS PERFECT
Everything about God is trustworthy because of who he is in the
perfection of his being. The Bible says this great truth in two ways : first,
it warns about the folly of trusting in anyone or anything other than
the Lord, and second, it describes for us his unique glory. We are
called to trust in the Lord our God, and for many good reasons. He is
not a creature but the uncreated, eternal creator (Heb. 11:3). He is not
bounded by time, and he will never cease to exist. Furthermore, he is
not dependent on anyone or anything for his existence. He does not
need anything because he is the source of life and breath and
everything else (Ac.17:25). In theology this is referred to as the aseity of
God.
6. GOD IS LOVE
The Holy Bible teaches that God is love (1Jn. 4:8). God loves all his
creation and cares for it in many ways (Matt. 5:43-48; Acts 14:17;
17:25-27), but he has a special love for his people that will bring them
into fellowship with himself and result in the full salvation from sin and
all of their enemies in this world and the next (John 17:23; Rom. 8:29-
39). This love of God will never let us go and we can always rely on him.
7. GOD IS HOLY
God is also holy, which not only means he is transcendent and
glorious, but He is pure and without any sin or defilement whatsoever
(Isa. 6:3; Rev. 4:8). Given the eternal nature of God and his awesome
sovereign power and majesty, it is welcome news that he is holy and
loving. There is no evil in him and nothing about his love that is
inconsistent with who he is as the righteous one. His love is pure, and
his judgments are flawless. No charge can be brought against him.
Nothing can undo what he has done and declared to be just (Rom. 8:32-
34).
8. GOD PROMISES BLESSINGS
God can also be trusted because his word is true, and he keeps all
his promises (John 17:17; Num. 23:19). The Lord pronounces a blessing
on “the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord” ( Jer.
17:7), and he will be blessed because the Lord cannot lie and he will
keep all of his promises. The Bible is full of what Peter calls “precious
and very great promises” that have to do with our complete salvation
and entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ (2Pet. 2:3-11). Not only are these promises wonderful in
themselves, but we can rely on them as God’s word to us, the
fulfillment of which will be more than we can ask or think (Eph. 1:20).

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ASSIGNMENT: (WRITE IN CROSSWISE PAPER)

1. WHAT ARE THE BLESSINGS YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM GOD?
2. OPEN YOUR HOLY BIBLE AND WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU READ?