Trusting God: Knowing and Experiencing God’s Love

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Our church-wide reading over the past couple of weeks focused on God’s love for us. Even in the midst of adversity, we can and should know that God loves those who belong to Him. (Chapters 9 & 10)
Trusting God: Jerry Bridges

https://pastorjonbeck.com/reading-list/ (for more info about the book and how to order one for yourself)

  • May 4th (154-161); 11th (162-170); 18th (171-179); 25th (180-188)
  • June 1st (189-197); 8th (198-206); 15th (207-215); 22nd (216-225)

CENTRAL IDEA
We can trust God’s love because He loves us with a perfect and infinite love, which was demonstrated on Calvary. Because of our union with Christ, we are secure in that love.

Any time we are tempted to doubt God’s love for us we should go back to the Cross. We should reason somewhat in this fashion: If God loved me enough to give His Son to die for me when I was His enemy, surely He loves me enough to care for me now that I am His child. Having loved me to the ultimate extent at the Cross, He cannot possibly fail to love me in my times of adversity.

The Bible’s assurance of the sovereignty and constancy of God’s love does not mean that we should not expect adversity. We mistakenly look for tokens of God’s love in happiness. We should instead look for them in His faithful and persistent work to conform us to Christ. God in His infinite wisdom and perfect love will never over-discipline us; He will never allow any adversity in our lives that is not ultimately for our good.

Psalm 103:11 (ESV)
 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

Romans 8:38–39 (ESV)
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:9–10 (ESV)
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Psalm 32:10 (ESV)
Many are the sorrows of the wicked,  but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.

Jerry Bridges, Trusting God (NavPres, 2023), pages 131-156

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