Lack of trust

In pretty much all of our relationships the trust factor plays a key role.  Right?  And we talk about the trust we have, and seek, in those relationships.  Now, we're not just talking about marital relationships or romantic relationships.  How about....all relationships?

• employee/employer
• friends
• work associates
• church friends
• repairmen
• and many more

How does one actually go about trusting someone?  What exactly is trust?  Most likely, if you were to ask 12 different folks those questions, you'd get a variety of answers...and some would not be very similar.  So is it safe to say that each person's view of trust is based primarily on their own life experiences and the baggage they may carry?  To carry it further, what is it that makes you feel as if you are trusted?  Again, if asked of the same dozen folks, how would the responses vary, and why?

 

I have a sister (age 72) who has spent her whole life as a "special child".  Age, as regards her, is only a chronological number.  This warm and wonderful child trusts everyone.  Everyone.  Why...because she loves everyone she comes in contact with.  And she trusts them.  That is inherently how she has been all of her life !  She was born that way, and never changed...or got changed by the ways of the world.  Like, unfortunately, most of us have.

 

I believe that we were all born like Maryanne...pure, gentle, kind, loving (and therefore trusting), and sweet and innocent.  She never lost those qualities, because through the grace of God she was never capable of losing them.  The ways of the world have rarely affected her.  We...that's right, you and I, are a different story.  We don't trust others until something or other is proven, because we have bought into the ways of the world....all of our lives.  We live with an underlying lack of trust...of others and of God.  There is a biblically based reason for my saying that:

 

 

Sissy's life has always been filled with simple joy. How truly joy filled is yours?  How much do you truly love others first?  And to get right down to it....just how much do you really trust God?