“I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM.”  – Hebrews 2:13 NASB

The main point the writer is making here in Hebrews 2:12-13 is that Jesus came and humbled Himself, and set Himself on our level. Jesus came, not a God to dazzle us with signs and wonders, but to walk as one of us. We will soon see in our study how Jesus is able to represent us before the Father because He can fully identify with our frailty.

The writer with this quote, “I will put my trust in Him,” demonstrates Jesus subjecting Himself to the Father.

Why would the God-man need to trust anyone other than Himself?

If Jesus is God, why did He need to trust God?

Jesus, having set aside all those wonderful Omnis, learned to walk through trusting the Father for everything He needed. In fact, if you want to fully understand trust, it would be good to take a look at Jesus.

When you live with the misunderstanding that Jesus exercised diety as He wandered Galilee, you miss the best example of how to trust in God.

Trusting in God is not a prayer at the front of a church or a hope that someday you will go to heaven. We relegate trust to hoping things will turn out OK for us. Our wishy-washy prayers that are more like lightly sanctified worry have nothing to do with trust.

Trust is daily.

Trust is not just thinking and knowing. It’s doing!

Jesus told us what trust looked like.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. – John 5:19

So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. – John 8:28

Trust looks like doing what you see the Father do and saying what you hear the Father say.

Trust looks like Jesus.

Trust says yes to God, even when everything in us want to go the other way.

Father was pointing out an area in my life just this morning as I was in my happy place. He showed me some liberties I have been walking in that His Word warns against. He showed me how my arrogance and belief that I was stronger than the temptation I was flirting with was folly. He grabbed me by the chin so I couldn’t look away and said, “you say you trust me, then lay all that down and TRUST me.”

Do I trust Him? Can I step away from sin and compromise and open myself up for His voice to lead me every day?

Oh loved ones, what could be safer, what could bring more pleasure than the enduring presence of God in our lives.

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. – Psalm 16:11

Thanks for stopping in.

Trust Him today.

Ben

I’m teaching verse by verse through Hebrews. If you’d like to catch up you can catch the whole series here.