Sometimes words alone cannot convey meaning and feelings the way we’d like them to. Trust is a good example of what I’m talking about. My reference point for this is, “Trust in the lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6.
Have you ever been betrayed by somebody you trusted implicitly? How’s that “trust somebody else” thing working for you now? See how easily misplaced trust can put you in a terribly vulnerable place? It’s uncomfortable. To some of us, it’s abnormal. It ain’t fun. Yet in this passage, we are instructed to put our trust in the Lord.
Are you able to put trust in your heart after devastating betrayal? In the real world, that stuff hurts. Once destroyed, trust don’t come round here anymore.
Extreme caution usually follows crippling betrayal. New relationships end up based on mistrust and prove it to me, not blind faith and unconditional trust.
How are you treating God in the trust area? “Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” 1 Corinthians 4:2. Now exactly, who’s proving what to whom?
Are you requiring God to prove something to you before you trust Him? Are you demanding (knowingly or not) from God those same things you demand from someone, anyone, before you would even consider granting him or her your love?
Isn’t it so easy to require proof before love is given? It is so easy to demand the impossible from folk who can’t give it to you.
The error in thinking here is your relationship with God cannot be based on those same worldly principles rooted in betrayal and disappointment. God has already proven His love for you, and it is unconditional. Our obligation is to confront our demons that have plagued us for years, and that includes all the pain that comes with them.
The only thing that matters at that point is coming to grips with the truth of God’s trust. “Consider the generations of old and see: has anyone trusted in the Lord and been disappointed?” Ecclesiastes 2:10.
God loved us first, and He still does regardless of what anybody else has done to you. “For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sin and saves in times of distress.” Ecclesiastes 2:11.
Let it go. Enjoy the reality of who you really are. Trust is really not that complicated when betrayal is impossible.
