TRUST because knowing...

For years, I've been praying 'Teach me the meaning of trust. Teach me how to trust.' But today, this revelation hits me home 'TRUST means to know one's character.'

I've heard saying that said 'trust me' & also the saying that said 'I can't trust you'. When I was slammed with the words 'I can't trust you', I found myself began asking the questions 'what have I done wrong? Why can't you trust me? and etc'...But today, this truth again taught me that we could trust when we make the choice to get to know the person or when we're given the opportunities to learn about the person's likes & dislikes. Otherwise, how else or what else is the best way to know him/her?

From acquaintances to friendships and then to best friends; this, I think is the only way we could learn to trust oneself progressively. Because it's through these stages of relationships that we learn about one's characters. And through it, we grow to either love them to pieces or learn to keep loving them.

With this saying, I think this also reflect the way we could TRUST the Almighty. Too often we say 'I trust you' yet at the same time, we choose not to invest in the relationship with Him. When unforeseen or undesirable circumstances took place, we asked the questions 'Whys?' I know I've the same approach when things don't go my way. I sang the song; 

'Indescribable, uncontainable, You place the stars in the sky and You know
Them by name, You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable, awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly
Proclaim, You are amazing God'

Yet, this truth isn't truth to me when unpleasant circumstances took place. Because I wanted my ways & failed to see His characters in such situations.

I guess this revelation challenges me to again see that 'it isn't the gifts/blessings that determine who He is but the character of Himself that determine the unchangeable Him.' And I know to come to this place of trust, is to allow myself to invest in the relationship; to study Him, to spend time with Him & to learn His likes and dislikes. 

 

Again, how else could I know Him? How else could I learn to trust Him? 

Thus, if this is the best way or the right way for you & I to trust Him. I guess this is also the best & right way for us to learn to invest in any relationships that we have around us - to make the choice to know oneself.