Confidence in God

<p>"She must really want this job,” I told my roommate. All throughout our dorm, posters promoted a candidate for dorm treasurer who I’ll call “Millie.” Each time we entered or exited the building we spotted these well-made campaign signs.</p><p>.</p><p>Other people were competing for positions on the leadership board of our dormitory, but nobody had plastered as many notices as Millie. I assumed she would serve well in the position because she seemed serious about taking on this role. When it came time to vote for dorm leaders, a majority of residents voted for Millie as treasurer.</p><p>.</p><p>We paid our dues to help support fun dormitory activities, and it was the treasurer’s responsibility to maintain these funds. We hoped this money would cover an extravagant end-of-year party in May. The first semester ended in December without any special celebrations.</p><p>.</p><p>When we returned after Christmas, we discovered that Millie had not come back to campus. She also didn’t return to class. She had simply disappeared—and the dorm treasury had disappeared with her. Did something bad happen to Millie? Or did she purposefully take the money we had trusted her to manage?</p><p>.</p><p>Unlike our loving Heavenly Father—who is always faithful and true—people let us down. Sometimes, they make promises they fail to fulfill; sometimes, they betray our trust. Kings, presidents, parents—and dorm treasurers—are flawed and fallible human beings. Only God is worthy of our complete confidence. He keeps all His promises. He promised to rescue His people from sin and death, and that promise was fulfilled in Jesus’s death and resurrection. He also promises to someday return to destroy sin, brokenness, and death forever. Our God is trustworthy. We can trust the Lord to redeem us from our sin, and we can trust Him—and Him alone—with our whole hearts. • Allison Wilson Lee</p><p>.</p><p>• Have you ever been let down by someone you trusted? What was it like? </p><p>.</p><p>• How is putting confidence in God different from putting c