Lesson 4: Know whom you trust
1 Timothy 1:15-17 - www.bible.com/bible/59/1ti.1

15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

In our last lesson we learned we must know what is good to be faithful to God. In this lesson we learn whom we should trust. It is our human nature to trust in ourselves. We want to trust what we can see or hear or taste or smell or touch. It is not in our nature to trust another, and certainly not another whom we cannot experience in any of our senses of our bodies. But God is not someone we can hear with our ears, see with their eyes, or experience with any of our senses – yet He asks us to trust Him.


Have you ever been to one of those leadership seminars where everyone is blindfolded except one person, and then that one person is asked to lead the rest through a maze of some kind and do so without getting anyone hurt? It is very difficult to learn to lead people that way, and only with a great amount of experience can anyone succeed. It is even harder to follow a leader in this kind of situation because we naturally fear what we cannot see.

God is not a leader like the one described above, where there can be several people between the last person and the leader. God is always a personal leader to each of us. He knows every situation and circumstance in your life. He knows the very number of hairs you have on your head. He loves you, and He has a perfect plan for your life. He is perfectly patient with you. He will never tell you, “I already told you that.”

Trust in God does not come in a day, it comes through allowing Him to guide you through struggles and trials and temptations and failures and hurts and joys in your life. This is the biggest reason He wants you to pray for things in your life even though He already knows everything you need – only when we pray and THEN experience the answer to our prayer can we give Him thanks for answers and for blessings He gives. From that cycle of prayer and answer and thanks comes a greater trust in the God who leads us.
 *What are some of the most effective ways of getting to know and trust God better? What will you start doing or continue doing more consistently to enable the Lord to reveal more and deeper truths about Himself and His holy character to you?