Insights on Living E-letter

April 2004 issue

Trust

     What does it mean to trust?

Trusting someone means that you can rely on them to keep their word and depend on them to be there for you in a time of need. It is being honest, honorable, constant, reliable, truthful and faithful. Is there anyone in your life that fits this description? Do you fit this description?

     Who do you trust?

It is not easy to trust people these days. We say something in confidence to someone only to find that several other people know about it. In the business world we have seen one scandal after another, Enron & WorldCom to name a few. Even Martha Stewart isn’t what she appears to be.

We can trust God in all things. God’s word is truth and He always keeps His promises. (1)

     Being trustworthy requires action. We show we are trustworthy by being available to those in need of our love and support, by holding what someone tells us close to our heart and not sharing it with others, by telling the truth even if it may be hard for the person to hear it and for us to express it. And it is doing these things constantly, reliably, faithfully and with love.

     We must be constant in earning trust because breaking a confidence or lying could deplete trust which is then so hard to rebuild. Think of a spoonful of white paint as being the trust between you and another person and that break in confidence or lie as being a drop of black paint. The black paint mixes with the white paint and taints it. The white is no longer white. It has become slightly off white. It will take a lot of white paint to diffuse the black paint to return it to its original state. 

     Betraying a trust leaves us feeling uneasy within. We may not recognize it at the time or we may recognize it and choose to ignore it. Try to recognize these feelings and learn from them. This is one way God speaks to us to let us know we are harming ourselves and our relationship with others. It takes conscious living to earn, maintain and build trust. When we live this way, our relationships will be authentic, loving and give us peace in knowing we our honoring ourselves, others and God.

(1) 1 Corinthians 1:9

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