There are two important aspects of a trust fall: both the catcher’s A-bility and the catcher’s RELIA-bility to catch the faller. When either of these things fail, bad things happen. When it comes to trusting in God’s promises, we also need to be sure of both His ability and His reliability. Can we trust Him? Most people don’t have a problem with His A-bility (CAN He give me what He promises?) but we often have trouble with His reliability. We doubt, “WILL He give me what He promises?” When it comes to trusting in the promises of God, perhaps no one has been called on to trust God more than Abraham. Abraham’s trust of God when he was asked to sacrifice Isaac so captured the existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that he came to define faith as a blind leap into the absurd. But faith in God’s promises doesn’t have to be a blind leap of faith. I think we can do better. The key is knowing both God’s ability and His reliability when it comes to fulfilling His promises.
