Trust

Sometimes in life we end up in places we shouldn't be, sometimes from our own decisions, sometimes from decisions by others, sometimes completely random.  Can you recall such a time in your life?  Are you in such a time now?

Where do you turn?  Where you turn is usually an indication of where we put our Trust.  What do you do if you put Trust in someone or something and if failed, does it cause you not to Trust again?  It is kind of like the Humpty Dumpty rhyme we all probably heard as children, "all the kings soldiers and all the kings men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again".  That is what happens to Trust (according to some) once broken it can never be restored.  That might be true with our life experiences but it is not true with Gods Ways.

Trust is intertwined with Forgiveness in Gods Ways.  In Mt. 18:21 Peter asked "Lord, How many times shall I forgive My brother or sister who sins against me?  Up to seven times?"  Do you realize that the meaning of sin is a transgression (intentional or by omission) against another.  To do something contrary to what is expected by the other.  That is breaking Trust.

So when Jesus answered in Vs. 22 it must have shocked Peter "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy seven times".  How can anyone forgive someone that intentionally or unintentionally betrays what you are expecting from them over and over and over and over again without also putting some level of trust each time you forgive?  Well that is exactly the kind of forgiveness God gives through Jesus Christ.  Our hesitancy to willing give Forgiveness and Trust goes against everything we hear in the world ... "Fool me once shame on, Fool me twice shame on me" or "I may forgive but I won't forget" that is the thinking of the world and why some say "Trust one broken can never be restored"  

Psalm 103:12 says "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."  Trust is not dependent of our ability to prove we have turned from our ways, it is dependent on the life and blood Jesus paid to remove them completely, as if they never existed, from us.

So when we are told to "Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge", it is not based upon our life of proof but in the price that was fully paid by Jesus Christ on each our behalf.  We can fully and confidently poor out our hearts to Him, knowing He is our Full Protection .... no matter what strange perdicament we find ourselves dangling from .... God does not betray His Word, it is and always will be True.