Having Faith in God & Trusting Him in All Things

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We are to have faith in God & trust Him for all things - for our protection, for those we love, for our worldly needs, and for our very lives.

Category: God & Yeshua

Type: Positive

Form: Implied

Source dataset: Old Testament

Uniqueness: Unique

Classical commandment: Yes

New Covenant Literal Application

Applies to Person Categories: Everyone

Literal Application: mandated

More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application

The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.

It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.

This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.

Read the full explanation from the source

Bible references

Key NT Scriptures

John 5:24
John 14:1
Luke 4:16-19
Matthew 6:26-34
Romans 5:1-2

Key OT Scriptures

Deuteronomy 7:6-15
Deuteronomy 15:1-11
Deuteronomy 28:1-14
Exodus 12:16
Exodus 13:12
Exodus 20:8-11
Exodus 23:10-12
Exodus 34:19
Exodus 34:21
Genesis 15:6
Leviticus 16:29-31
Leviticus 23:3
Leviticus 23:7-8
Leviticus 23:21
Leviticus 23:24-25
Leviticus 23:27-32
Leviticus 23:34-36
Leviticus 25:1-17
Leviticus 25:20-31
Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 16:20
Proverbs 29:25
Psalms 62:7-9
Psalms 118:6-9

Supportive NT Scriptures

2 Corinthians 5:5-7
2 Corinthians 9:10-12
Ephesians 2:8
Galatians 2:15-16
Galatians 3:5-14
Galatians 3:21-26
Hebrews 4:9
Hebrews 11:1-34
James 1:2-8
John 3:16-18
John 6:35
John 6:47
John 11:25-26
John 11:40
1 John 3:21-23
1 John 4:16
1 John 5:3-5
1 John 5:13-14
Luke 12:4-7
Luke 12:22-32
Mark 2:27
Mark 10:46-52
Mark 11:20-22
Mark 16:16
Matthew 6:25-34
Matthew 8:23-26
1 Peter 1:8-9
Philippians 3:8-9
Romans 3:28-30
Romans 4:4-5
Romans 10:8-13
Romans 15:13
1 Timothy 4:9-10

Supportive OT Scriptures

2 Chronicles 20:20
Daniel 3:16-18
Isaiah 12:2
Isaiah 26:3-4
Isaiah 43:2
Isaiah 61:1-2
Jeremiah 17:7-8
Job 13:15
Nahum 1:7
Proverbs 11:24-25
Proverbs 30:5
Psalms 4:6
Psalms 7:2
Psalms 9:9-11
Psalms 18:30
Psalms 20:8
Psalms 27:5
Psalms 32:10
Psalms 37:3-6
Psalms 40:2-18
Psalms 46:2
Psalms 56:3-12
Psalms 71:5-6
Psalms 91:1-7
Psalms 112:7
Psalms 121:2-8
Psalms 143:8-9
Psalms 145:18-20
2 Samuel 22:31-33

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Commentary

Rabbi Michael Rudolph

This Mitzvah commands us to have faith in God and trust Him for all things. Faith and trust are at the very heart of our relationship with God, so it is no wonder that there are so many Scriptures in the Bible that speak to it. Many Scriptures address it directly, and it is also built into the Jewish life experience through the Sh'mitah , the Year of Jubilee, and the various Sabbaths that require that we rest ourselves and/or our land, cancel debts, and return our land to its original owners every fifty years. All of these require that we put ourselves in God's hands and trust Him to provide for us and protect us. Scripturally, there is no difference between faith and trust as we may see from the following two translations of Hebrews 11:1 : CJB: Trusting is being confident of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see. NKJ: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This connection of trust and faith to our not seeing is vitally important. When we exercise faith, it is not only that we do not see God; that is always the case. It is that we do not see or understand the circumstance or the issue for which we trust Him, and we must therefore make ourselves vulnerable to Him and rely solely on Him. The extent to which we do that betrays how discipled we are. If we are new in the Lord, we likely give ourselves over to Him periodically and on a case by case basis. The ideal, however, is that our walk with God is one of continuous reliance and continuous trust as it appears was the case with Enoch in Genesis 5:24 : Hanokh [Enoch] walked with God, and then he wasn't there, because God took him.

Classical commentators

Despite the plethora of Scriptures on trust and faith, Maimonides, Meir and HaChinuch did not construct any mitzvot specifically on the subject. Nevertheless, Maimonides separately wrote his famous "Thirteen Basic Principles of Faith" that list what we are to believe about God apart from our having natural evidence: 1. God exists. 2. God is one. 3. God is incorporeal 4. God is eternal 5. Only God may be worshipped 6. Prophets exist who hear God's voice 7. Moses was the chief of the prophets 8. The entire Torah was given to Moses from heaven 9. The Torah is perfect and we must therefore not add nor subtract from it 10. God is omniscient 11. God rewards and punishes 12. The Messiah will come, and we should not try to predict when 13. There is a resurrection from the dead

Drawings

Artist: Jenske Visser

Short Movies

Bible Project - Job

Watch our overview video on the book of Job, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. Job explores the difficult question of God's relationship to human suffering and invites us to trust God's wisdom and character.

Nick Vujicic - Motivational Minute #42 - Faith

Songs

MerceMe - Even if

Selah - Lord I Trust You

Sanctus Real - Promises

Testimonies

Moving Works - Giving up Graham

Lore and Michael started their family with great hope for the future, but when their son’s life begins to spiral downward, they come face to face with what it truly means to trust in God.

Related Law of Messiah commandments

Classical sources

Maimonides

Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, 12th century) organized all 613 Torah commandments into a structured list. These linked items show where this Law of Messiah commandment overlaps with that classical framework.

Meir of Rothenburg

Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (13th century, Germany) was a leading Talmudic authority. These reference numbers link this commandment to his halachic rulings.

ML20, ML21, MP22, MP23, MP24, MP25, MN57, MN56, MP25, MP19, MP20, MP25, MP27, MP28, MP29, MP31, MP34, MP37

Source and License

Based on The Law of Messiah - Torah from a New Covenant Perspective by Michael Rudolph and Daniel C. Juster.

Volume 1 & 2 | Volume 3

License: CC BY-ND 4.0 (Attribution required, NoDerivatives). CC BY-ND 4.0

Disclaimer: the original content is authored by Rabbi Michael Rudolph and Rabbi Daniel Juster; additional notes or implementation details on this website are not part of their original work and do not represent their views.

Record source: The Law of Messiah - Torah from a New Covenant Perspective - Volume 1 & 2

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