Understanding, Processes, Trust - Part III ...

Thursday, August 18, 2011. If you read the daily news in Europe currently, there is a lot about difficulties of understanding.

Different Areas and Processes …

We are still in a time where the financial crisis is a hot topic. The governments try to act in an environment where the markets have lost trust in their decisions. The leaders of European nations act, and the financial experts which drive the markets act as well. And as a third party we have the journalists and newspapers who comment all this and draw their conclusions, let experts speak and try to find out what is going on.

Many newspapers formulate demands and expectations towards politics currently. What should Europe's leaders do, what should the countries do with their governments and the financial ministers, what should the European central bank do? Between Paris and Berlin and Frankfurt and London we have a big market of opinions which is sweeping the country.

But we need to see that the processes which take place in politics are different from the processes in business. Politicians need weeks or month to collect votes and bring some project through. They are bound to many rules. The decision of some stock broker is made instantaneously, and he is not responsible to 80 million people with his next step, he does not have a cohort of experts from different areas around him!

God's Concept of Trust …

What is the role of faith here? Faith does not have the direct tools to make decisions on financial markets. Faith can guide our basic principles, it can also give us trust and hope for particular steps. But we need to thoroughly investigate the matter and the facts. We need to think about the processes and all the people living in our country and in Europe. Then, decisions will be made on the basis of reason guided by faith.

The bible has the basic concept of trust. We are asked to be trustworthy. This is very important, and is an advice which Jesus gives to all of us, in particular to the politicians. Trust can be reflected in the transparency with which decisions are communicated. We need to trust politicians, that they try to find the best way. Of course we also will interact and put in our understanding of things. Democracy is a process which needs intense interaction between the leaders and the people, again and again.

Trust also takes place on a personal level. We can trust that God supports us when we try to act responsibly and search the best for our country. With this trust, let us solve the current difficulties! ... more texts