What Makes God Trustworthy?Muestra

God is trustworthy because He is holy

Your family or grandparents might have a certain set of dishes you only use on very special occasions, like Christmas dinner. These dishes aren’t like the regular plates and bowls you use everyday for breakfast. This particular set of dishes might even go in a separate china cabinet, away from the everyday dishes you typically use. These dishes are special. They’re set apart.

Or in biblical language, they’re holy.

The idea behind holiness is that something – or Someone – is special, unique, set apart, not common.

God is holy. Maybe you’ve heard that before. God’s holiness does not mean He is distant or far away – but it means He is unlike us. He is not common. He is unique. He is set apart. He is special.

To be holy you have to be completely separate from sin. Sin is what stains holiness. But God – in His holiness, in His uniqueness, in His specialness – cannot sin. Because He is set apart and special, He is totally separate from sin. And because He is separate from sin, and cannot sin, then that means He cannot sin against you.

If God is holy, then it means He cannot do any harm against you.

And if God cannot harm you, cannot hurt you, cannot be the cause of pain against you, then that means one staggering truth…

God is the most trustworthy Person in the world.

You will never meet someone more trustworthy; someone who knows all your darkness and is not afraid; someone who sees your secrets and welcomes you home with arms stretched wider than you can imagine.

This doesn’t mean we won’t experience pain, but it does mean that God is not the one who has sinned against us.

Because God is holy, special, and unlike anyone else we’ll ever know, He is trustworthy.

Spend some time in prayer with Jesus, considering how He is holy and how He cannot sin against you.

Go deeper with this video from our friends at BibleProject: