We are only as healthy as we are able to trust. If we are unable to trust, we are sentenced to walled-up lives protected from the deceit of others. Such isolated living makes full, human recovery impossible.
The task, however, is not to blindly trust. We have done that-to our undoing. The task is to discern who is trustworthy and who is not. Trusting has never led us into trouble, but the people we have chosen to trust have. And then all too often we have demanded unshakable loyalty from ourselves toward that untrustworthy person.
Trust must be earned. Our discipline is not to blindly trust others but to patiently wait to see if they have earned that treasured gift from us. Our goal must be to wisely discern who is trustworthy and who is not……Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty.
Read Nehemiah 7:2
Prayer……Lord, I pray for the wisdom to give my trust only to trustworthy people and for the strength to trustworthy myself, in Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
– Posted by Michael Joseph Belmont.