Trust is Needed - Trust is Possible ...

Monday, Aug 25, 2014. Trust is an important asset. It is a fragile, a vulnerable asset as well. Trust means that you rely on someone, that you know that he or she will do you good. Trust means that you do not have to have fears.

Describe trust …

Some banks are called “trust”. The name comes from the trust you need to give your money to someone. You trust that you get it back, with the interest which has been agreed. Trust and risk are related. Risk means that you do not know if you can trust.

Trust is important in your relationships. When you marry someone, you promise that you stay together. Marriage is a kind of contract of trust. Love includes trust, and trust is strongly related to love. But marriages are also vulnerable. Too many marriages break into pieces … and trust is destroyed. Both partners are left with hurt souls. The pain is deep and lasts long.

You need trust in your work environment. You need to be able to trust that the work you put in makes sense. You need some kind of “return on investment” - otherwise your motivation will suffer, and it will be difficult to keep a healthy relationship and healthy attidude towards the things you need to do day by day.

God is trust …

There is really “good news”. It is nearly too good to be true: God is trust. God is someone you can really trust. He is by his character and everything he is pure trust, pure love. And he is the living God! He is there. He exists. And even more: he wants a relationship to you. He wants you to get to know him. He wants to live with you! Believe in the Lord - and start to relate to him!

Humans are weak. Humans might break your trust. Humans might not be able to fully provide the support, the honesty, the love you need. Humans might not be worth your full trust. But the Lord is different. The Lord is worthy of trust, worthy of your full dedication, your full love.

When I first discovered this good news, I thought it cannot be true! Can you believe that God is goodness? Can you believe that he is there, and that he is a love which is much better and much more beautiful than anything you have ever seen? The great thing is that it is really true. Trust is possible, since God lives, and since he is trust. The trust which God gives and which God is, can be a sound basis of our life. That is called “faith”. (Roland Potthast) ... more texts