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Some people are naturally trusting. They enter every relationship with a positive attitude and always look for the very best possible outcome. It doesn’t ever occur to them that the persons with whom they have developed relationships might, at some point, prove untrustworthy. Frankly, I envy these open, accepting, and positive-attitude people.
Then, there are people like me. Because of my personal history, dating way back to childhood experiences, and because I am inherently and extremely shy, for all of my adult life I have approached every relationship with suspicion. I expect any new person who crosses my pathway to eventually betray me. It is quite likely that my generally negative attitude toward trust has proven so off-putting to many people that it has created a self-fulfilling prophecy, time after time.
Nevertheless, I have decided to put aside my own predispositions and prejudices and see if I can share with you the importance of trust.
If we are going to faithfully and persistently share with other people what God has done, is doing, and will do in our lives, we have to be viewed by those other people as individuals who are worthy of trust.
The Prophet Isaiah has made this statement in Isaiah 26:4:
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
In our relationship with God, we must learn to trust Him implicitly and continually. He will never betray our trust. He will never let us down. He will always surround us with His loving care. We can count on Him in every situation.
If we are to become trustworthy, with God’s trustworthiness as our example, where do we begin? By trusting in God we will find that, more and more, we will become worthy of trust. That’s because trust begets trust. Furthermore, we can and should follow the example of King Solomon, who wrote these words in Proverbs 3:5-6:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
We begin to learn trustworthiness by depending or leaning on God. He has given us His Holy Spirit to come along beside us and lead us along the pathway that God has opened up before us. If we set aside our own selfish wills and place the entirety of our beings into God’s loving and tender care, we will begin to experience the reality of trusting in Him.
Out of that experience, we can develop within us the kind of trust that will prompt those around us to begin to listen to what we have to say and perceive that our words come from hearts that are worthy of trust.
Let’s begin this new day by redoubling our efforts to trust in God and build within us a trust that has as its foundation His trustworthiness. If we do that, we will become more and more effective in our role as ambassadors of the Great King.
