The One Who I Can Trust

Jennifer Fletcher

This Easter marks my 22nd year as a committed follower of Jesus.

On September 11th 2001, I was about to board a plane to Hong Kong on the way to a year abroad working, travelling and (partying!) in Australia when I heard the news that two planes had flown in to the World Trade Centre in New York. It wasn’t until I arrived in Hong Kong, surrounded by skyscrapers and saw the surreal footage on the television that I realised the fullness of what had occurred.

Several months later I was in Melbourne, Australia. I had become friends with a British backpacker who was a Christian. He seemed ‘normal’, and yet was honest and open about his Christian faith.

We had been having lots of conversations about faith, God, Jesus and Church and he invited me to come with him to a christian student Easter camp that an Australian friend of his was speaking at.

In one of the sessions the speaker asked us the question:
“Who, or what, can we put our full trust in?”
Marriage, health, careers, friendships, the government?

No one had ever imagined that what had happened on 9/11 would have been possible in 2001. Many of the happenings of the last few years and current events leave me with the same feelings of unbelief and distress.

The message that captured my heart on that day and has remained with me ever since is that God - and his everlasting, unfailing love - is the one in whom we can put our full trust.

In the midst of the joys and sorrows of the last 22 years, I have found that to remain true.
God is my rock and my foundation, the one who I can trust.

I will love You, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised;
and I have been saved from my enemies.
Psalm 18:1-3

As we enter Holy Week and meditate on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, may we remember Paul’s words and the reassurance they offer us, but also the hope that they may bring to someone else, as they did to me as a 22 year old, backpacking around Australia.

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38