Whom can I trust? ...

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2010. Politics can be a difficult business. There are political parties, where people with similar attitudes or similar basic opinions join their forces to find good solutions for the community. But when you want to have a career in this field, it is quite tricky. Whom can you trust? The others want to have a nice career as well. But you need them, you need trust to some extent at least …

Trust is needed everywhere …

In science the situation seems different. Here, the task is to find out as much as possible about a particular field or topic. We are looking into the world, into phenomena, we try to understand, to analyse, to model, to describe, to change, control, influence and build.

But in science you have a similar phenomenon as in politics. There are many scientists, and only a few of them can get a permanent position in science. In times of economical crisis, many departments have to reduce their staff, and there is a significant element of competition. Whom can you trust? Everyone tries to get as many grants as possible, and the whole system is getting close to collapse, since salaries are not high and the demand on time and effort is high. Trust is needed, otherwise you would not be able to work with others. But how much can you really trust people? Good question, you might say!

We might also talk about business, even about one company only. Today we seem to be far away from an environment of responsibility. It is more about getting along at all, surviving the next month in terms of liquidity and sales. Is this an environment for personal trust? The statements of leaders talk about lack of skilled workers - but when you look deeper into this, there is no lack at all, they just try to keep prices of labor low. There is some need for this, the competition is strong. But still: is this a basis for trust?

Can you trust God? …

Can you trust God? It is a key question - and you might find many examples of events immediately, which make you suspicious. How can there be so many difficult things? Where is God? What is God doing?

We are approaching Christmas soon, and we will be talking about Jesus, about his birth and life. In this guy God wants to show that he is trustworthy indeed. In Jesus he wants to prove his trustworthiness.

Trust is always an active step. We need to say: yes. We need to move forward and put our trust in someone or something. It is the same with God, without our will to trust and our trust in him, it will be difficult to experience what it means and to see that he is in fact trustworthy. God, come into our life and help us to understand how holy and trustworthy you are. Help us to do our little steps, you have done yours in Jesus long ago and since then again and again …! ... more texts