BLUF: Because God is light, He is the wholly trustworthy being. It only makes sense to trust Him.

Intro: It should go without saying, but sometimes it can be hard to trust many people. It is possible to become cynical. I used to have a peer who had retired from one of Atlanta’s police investigative units and he would tell me, “Jon, everyone is guilty; it’s just a matter of finding the evidence.” He did not say it jokingly. He had grown calloused and skeptical of every human institution, and he left each job he undertook a bitter man.

Segue: This morning I was reading some wisdom from the apostle John about how and why to trust God: “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God, is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5 ESV).

John was of course Jesus’ closest friend. He knew Jesus. They hung out. He learned from the Holy One of God. He suffered immensely for bearing witness to Christ as Lord. He penned 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Revelation, and the book of John—not exactly a small contribution to the canon of Scripture.

Encouragement: As we are amidst the holidays (the term came from holy days, by the way) it is a good time to focus upon the wholly trustworthy God whose incarnation of the Son is the very raison d’etre for Christmas and the holy days. Happy holidays. As you celebrate, may you and I contemplate the Light of all lights, the One in whom is no darkness at all.