Jesus (Part 1 of 5)
St. Faustina’s feast day is October 5th. So this week we're unpacking the prayer Jesus revealed to St. Faustina: "Jesus, I trust in you." Each day we'll reflect on the power and meaning contained in these five simple words.
"Jesus, I trust in you."
We begin with a name. Jesus.
Not "God" or "Lord" or "Almighty"—though He is all of these. We speak His name. The name His mother called Him. The name His friends knew Him by.
To speak someone's name is to acknowledge their presence. When you call out "Jesus," you're not shouting into the void, hoping someone might hear. You're speaking to Someone who is here, now, listening.
Think about it: you don't call out the names of people who aren't around. You don't whisper to empty rooms. Names are for the present, for the near, for those within reach.
When we say "Jesus," we're declaring that He is not distant. He is not absent. He is not too busy or too important to hear us.
He is here.
The prayer doesn't start with explanation or justification or elaborate theology. It starts with presence. His presence. The simple, stunning reality that the God of the universe has a name we can speak, and when we speak it, He listens.
Everything else—the trust, the surrender, the relationship—flows from this first truth: Jesus is present to us.
So close we can call His name.