Saturday 5 September 2015

Trust Defined by Susan L.

  What exactly does "trust" mean?
  Funk and Wagnall define it, and I'll bypass the business use, as a confident reliance of the integrity, honesty or justice of another; faith. Something committed to one's care. That's the noun. The verb, or action, of trust is to rely upon, to allow to do something without the fear of consequences, to expect with confidence or hope, to depend upon.
  My concordance, a book that lists individual words in the scriptures and where they appear, also has Greek and Hebrew translations for each word. 
  Hebrew states its meaning to build up or support, to be firm or faithful to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet, to be true or certain. It also adds, in another form that it means to be bold, confident, expectant, secure, to have hope, make refuge, to be restful and in a place of strength. There is also one form that means to fear, be grievous, hope, look, tremble, wait carefully. I suppose that is almost akin to awe.
  The Greek states that trust is defined as a refuge, a security or assurance or being in the place of confidence, hope and surety. It also is used to define a track or passageway.
  There's a lot packed into those five little letters.
  So how does all this become immersed within the fabric of my existence? A good whack of receiving is in the letting go. For me, it's the letting go of the expectation that I will be betrayed or tossed aside. To make the move from living with expectations as my friend H commented yesterday into a life of eager expectancy for the future will take a tender nurturing of trust. Trust cannot be built without taking chances or at least having the willingness to gamble on an unknown outcome.
  I think, too, there needs to be prayers for discernment. Utter trust is reserved for God. People, not so much.
  That's enough heavy thinking for this morning.
  "For the Lord is the God of knowledge." 1 Sam 2:3
 
 
 
 


 
 

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  1. It is true that no one except God is 100% trust-worthy. That is because we humans are weak, frail, faulty, and sinful. Some are even downright evil. But when they break our trust, we can journey with Jesus as He was betrayed, insulted, tortured, humiliated, and killed. We can turn a destructive experience into one that unifies us with our Lord and Saviour, if we so choose.

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    1. And that's where an open and honest dialog with the Lord is so crucial to our being changed. No matter if our feelings are "un-Christian", God wants to hear from us so we may hear from Him.

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