The One To Trust
by Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons
Our greatest evidence of the faithfulness of God to His Word was the birth of Jesus. In the Garden of Eden, God declared to Satan, with Adam, Eve and all creation as witnesses, “There is One coming and He will bruise your head!” Throughout the many centuries that followed, God spoke time and again, layering detail upon detail about “The Coming One.” The God of eternity looked down through the ages of time and declared Jesus’ lineage, beginning with Abraham, Isaac and then Jacob, down through King David 500 years later, and even down to the exact little town Jesus would be born in: Bethlehem.
On top of all the natural specifics foretold, the Word of the Lord announced the impossible: “He will be born of a virgin.” The probability of one prophecy precisely coming to pass is impressive, but fulfillment of them all is estimated by some probability mathematicians to be one chance in 10 to the 17th power.* That’s 10 with 17 zeros after it! But the chance for the impossible is, well, ZERO! Yet, Jesus did come, precisely to the last detail as the Word of the Lord said He would. If only one minute detail had failed to come to pass, God would be a liar and all would be lost. But, praise Him forever, our God will not, indeed cannot, ever lie!
God’s faithfulness is the most basic truth upon which the whole of our Christianity rests. We may not want to admit it, but everyone has thought or acted like the Word of God had somehow failed to come to pass for us. Even though we have nodded our heads and said, “Yes, amen, the Word of God is true,” when we came face-to-face with opposition to His promises, our thoughts and actions question the truth of the Word. If those thoughts are not taken captive, they will lead us down a path of fear that His Word “won’t work for me this time.”
Some people would say God is not a liar.
That may sound to you like a very basic truth. Yet many people in the Body of Christ today are talking and behaving as if He is.
What may come as an even greater shock to you is the fact that at one time or another, you and I have been among them.
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* “Jesus: Fraud or Messiah,” BibleTimeLines.com, July 5, 2020, bibletimelines.com.
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