The Erosion of Trust

I've been thinking what many of you have- the world has become a huge bowl of mistrust.

From conniving, lies and propaganda, political "leaders" to preachers, lawyers and sometimes judges likewise, from backslidden and so-called followers of Jesus all the way to... ahem... you and I in various ways and times in our own lives has their not been deceit and deception?

There are sooooooooooooooooooooo many scammers in cyberspace and at the auto shop and other repair places, on and on... I mean, WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

So when somebody talks about having faith in Jesus, faith in God, in the Bible's words and teachings it stands to reason that many will simply shrug off the ability to trust.

"Once bitten, twice shy" as the old axiom goes.

It should come as no surprise to any of us that trust has always been in a fragile state in this world. The serpent in the garden worked that line on Eve -and Adam, no?

While questioning faith and elements of it in terms of recognizing the truths you've just read above it's rather obvious many people end up merely chasing their own tail figuring they themselves are the only one worthy of trust.

Until they/we/you-and-I are brutally honest about our own lack of trustworthiness.

Nahhhh, let's just ignore, skip that fact, right?!

One of the "last straws" for me as I finally surrendered (and that's the most accurate word for it) to Jesus, was coming to another obvious conclusion: I sure enough couldn't trust myself. I'd failed so much, had begun acting out lies toward friends, made commitments to myself I didn't keep, sometimes in only a matter of a day or two and etc..

"New Year's Resolutions" were a thin joke in my own life so why bother? I'd been ripped off enough by others I had learned to distrust most everyone. I had finally come to face the fact I was untrustworthy myself.

Now we have AI (trust any iteration of it do you?) and the word "artificial" itself is a tip-off not only via the sense of computed information but fake, phony, unrealistic and sometimes just plain crazy wrong directives offered by the "genius" propelled by Big Biz as much as any virtuous sense of helping the human race.

Having said all this, I'm not saying there are no truly genuine people including real-deal followers of Jesus whom for the most part one can indeed trust. I preach and live accountability and always have so there that! What I'm saying is the world has unraveled in so many facets that there are genuine risks in taking people and what you read, hear and watch online and face-to-face as true. The games that get played can get you wondering if you're once again being sold thin ice for granite.

It ain't called "virtual reality" for nothing.

Faith in people who are so often unfaithful seems rather hollow if not plain ignorant. Comparing that with faith in Jesus? Well here it goes:

It was and is a risk to take God at His Word, to trust the Bible, to actually walk with the Lord in daily relationship -so whether or not you trust me who is at times sinful and regularly flawed as anyone reading this also is, my life has been so deeply graced with love and healing changes over the decades I began such risk, I will say now and until my last breath after which I believe I shall see His face and give account as well as begin to praise Him for eternity in real time... I don't know anyone more worthy of trust than the risen Jesus Christ.

And as always, thanks for stopping by. -Glenn