He Is Able

“For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could 

swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself”

—Hebrews 6:13—

Trust is difficult to obtain and keep. It’s like a treasure that we find and try to protect from corruption. Everyone has, at varying degrees, issues with trusting someone because once we lose that trust, it may take a lifetime to renew. Furthermore, we too often evaluate trusting God the way we would fallible people.

Men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul (Hebrews 6:16–19).

The apostle Paul put it this way: “For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day” (2 Timothy 1:12). Read 2 Corinthians 11:16–33 and consider everything Paul endured as an apostle. And through it all, he trusted the One who does not change (James 1:16–17; Hebrews 13:8–9).