Jesus reminds His disciples and us that the basis of comfort and peace comes by trusting Him. If you really trust Him, what do you have to worry about? The main reason the disciples in the New Testament and believers today get so agitated is because we focus on our problems and do not place our faith in Christ.

We Can Trust In Christ’s Presence

John 14:1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in Me.

The disciples are to “stop letting their hearts be troubled.” He knows they’re already troubled. All their dreams and desires were unraveling. The gloomy prospect of Christ’s dying and leaving them is revealed.
He was going to leave them in the midst of enemies who hated Him, and them. One of them was going
to betray Him, and Peter, who was on the surface the strongest of all of them was going to deny Him three times. They are troubled.

You believe in God, believe also in Me. The first is a fact, the other is a command. You already believe in God, now believe in Me.

You believe in God whom you cannot see; believe also in Me. Keep on trusting Me. You are trusting God,
so keep on, trusting Me. You have full faith in an invisible God. So believe also in Me even though I’m not here. The Holy Spirit’s ministry is to point to Jesus Christ, to keep reminding us that He is here with us.

Whatever our trouble, our fouled up problems, whatever mess we’re in, whatever anxiety or perplexity we’re in, just remember, the Lord is here with us.

We Can Trust in Christ’s Promises

John 14:2 In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you.

In Jesus’ day a man would build a house. Then, one of His sons would be married, and He would attach another wing to the house, and so on. They would all share, maybe in a circle a patio; but they would all be connected. When believers go to heaven, God is not going to be in one place, and then all of us eight blocks down the street.. We will all be in the same house as the Father. We’ll have the same patio; we will live right together.

When it is time for us to go, the Lord does not send someone to get us. He will come and get us in person, to take us home.

We Can Trust Christ’s Person

John 14:4 And you know the way where I am going.

14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Jesus says, you don’t need to know how to get there; I’m coming to get you. When the moment comes, I’ll take your hand, you don’t even need to know the directions.

Trust Me, Jesus says. You don’t need a map. I’m the way.

Jesus is the only way.

We Can Trust Christ’s Provision

John 14:12 Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works that I am doing he will do also, and he will do greater works than these because I am going to the Father. 14:14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

Believers’ works become greater precisely because of the new order that has come about consequent on His going to the Father. The greater works of this life-giving power of the Son depends on the Son’s death, resurrection, and exaltation. The signs and works Jesus performed during His ministry could not fully accomplish their true end until after Jesus had risen from the dead and been exalted.

By contrast, the works believers are given to do through the power of the Spirit, after Jesus’ glorification, will be set in the framework of Jesus’ death and triumph, and will therefore more immediately and truly reveal the Son.

Many more converts will be gathered unto Christ than were drawn in during Jesus’ ministry. The contrast itself, however, turns not on raw numbers of people involved, but on the power and clarity that spring forth after ‘the eschatological hinge has swung,’ and the new day has dawned.

At the point of Jesus’ death and resurrection, redemption is won. The kingdom of God is triumphantly invading the nations with saving and transforming power. The center point of the covenant community stretched outward from its initial Jewish confines to embrace the world. As a result, the disciples and believers today are empowered and equipped to engage in far-reaching ministry.

Trust In Christ Comforts a Troubled Heart!