The person you can truly trust

Who is it we can really trust in these twisted days? So many people will say, “Why are being so negative… why do you see these days as twisted?” Well, many are trying to sell something, that’s why.

Many are won to one ideology or politic or faith or cause. They’re often so won to these things, they wish to sell such a message, often to the detriment of the relationship that might otherwise be nurtured.

Many are won to a conquest for some kind of domination, whether it be little or large.

Many are won to procuring an environment of their taste, and it may just be you who is spoiling it. In other words, you may sense that ‘being you’ isn’t right or good enough around such people.

We must truly ask,
more often, of other people’s motives,
“What’s in it for them?”

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For Christians, so many, perhaps all of us, are skewed to one thread of this wide-sweeping faith, to the exception of other equally important threads. The truth is, as a humanity, we try to ‘box’ God and we always fail, because God’s ways and thoughts are higher than our ways. Some peddle a purely social justice gospel and decry the moral poverty in capitalism. Others focus on ethical issues and decry the moral poverty in socialism. And never the twain shall meet.

We must wonder why people put their opinions above their relationships. Why is it that people are prepared to burn a relationship because of an ideal that has become an idol? If a person’s opinion is so important to them that they’re prepared to stop short of loving another person built in the image of God, you must wonder who they’re following… and why. If it’s all down to manipulation, the relationship is worthless.

If you must agree to keep the peace,
it is not a relationship you have, but abuse.

If it’s the case that a dear friend or partner or boss cannot accept something that is inherently you, and you must change or else, you must wonder what the relationship is worth. Is it worth the preciousness of your trust? Is it worth your ongoing compromise? Is it worth your soul when it feels like it’s being eaten away by the day?

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The person you can really trust has nothing to sell and is not trying to influence you for their gain. The person you can really trust has given up their conquest to master you. The person you can really trust is someone you don’t have to be someone else around.

The person you can trust
loves you for who you are.

God loves you will this love.

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