Who do you trust?

 

Trust is a big thing in life. It’s interesting how we seem to start out with so much of it at the beginning of life and then, from there on, it just seems to wane. When we’re young we just seem to be so trusting. As we get older, though, that trust isn’t as easily given out to others as it once was. We learn through experience that we can’t just trust everybody we meet. We could easily end up getting ourselves in trouble that way.

One danger, though, as we get older is not learning to trust anyone. We sometimes just get burned too many times and the temptation is to just not trust anybody. Depending on the person’s experience and their personality type, this can easily happen. This is the danger—of becoming cynical as we grow older, that we don’t want to trust, or just don’t know who to trust.

I think we learn, though, that we have to trust somebody at some point. We just have to make choices about who we trust. I think, as far as myself goes, I was probably a little too trusting. I would be the type to walk onto a car lot and think, “Why would a used car salesman want to lie to me?” I now know that kind of thinking may not be the best approach in these areas. We learn as adults that people don’t always have the purest of motives. Sometimes we learn that the hard way. We find out later when we get raked over the coals. These are important lessons. It can be easy to become bitter, but this is never helpful. We need to always have that inner circle of people we can trust. People who have our best interests in mind. That usually starts with family. Then we usually have one or two friends we can confide in. I know, at least, that’s the case for me.

I guess in some ways I’m too trusting. In other ways not trusting enough. I am not really so cynical that I expect everyone is going to take me to the cleaners. I generally like to think the best of people. I think my main area of lacking trust is just in the area of being understood by others. I can get frustrated or disappointed when I feel others aren’t getting what I’m trying to communicate to them. I think I need to understand that people aren’t lacking in their wanting to understand me, I just might need to do a better job of communicating. Something I need to work on, I guess.

Regardless, trust usually has to be earned by us. That’s not a bad thing. We need to be discerning in this area. Unfortunately, though, even the most trustworthy people in our lives, can end up betraying our trust. Sometimes we find even ourselves difficult to trust. But that doesn’t mean we don’t extend trust to others, or even ourselves.

 

…Let’s go deeper

 

 

 

There’s one person, though, that we can trust all the time. There’s a verse in Numbers. It’s Numbers 23:19: ‘God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” This one is a good reminder for us. We often have so much experience with people disappointing us that it’s difficult for us to think that God isn’t the same way. But he isn’t. God will never lie to us. We can stand on his word. Jeremiah 1:12 says, “Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.” Both of these verses emphasize that God will make sure to perform what he has spoken.

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But what about the trust part? Well, Psalms 31:14-15 says, “But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God. My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.” David was asking here for help in escaping his enemies. In the verses leading up to these two in this chapter, David was explaining his troubles and beginning here David was expressing his trust and faith in God.

Finally, Isaiah 26:3 says, “Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.” It’s clear here that our trust in him is how we stay in peace. When we trust him so fully, that we keep our mind on him, and, as a result, our level of trust is such that we know he will get us through. So, he keeps us in perfect peace when our mind is fixed on him. Why? Because we trust in him.

Numbers 23:19: “God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

Jeremiah 1:12 says, “Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.”

2 Corinthians 12:9 says, “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

Psalms 31:14-15 says, “But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God. My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”

Isaiah 26:3 says, “Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.”

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