Thursday, October 23, 2008

Trust

Trust is taking confidence in someone to be honest and faithful to you always; no matter what. Trusting someone requires a realistic perspective and wiliness to accept failure when it happens. But in this day and age, trust is taken for granted, every single day!

People are complex. Therefore previous fears, hurts, losses can impede their determination of trust and/or the truth in a relationship.

We are all human, frail, and sinful.
We all begin a relationship and over time we gain trust in another human. Trusting grows as you build knowledge, understanding, and authenticity. We gain insight into each other's character, needs, motivation, and fears. Therefore we begin an unconditional love which in turn, turns into trust.

But what if that trust is broken. What and how is that person supposed to act? Every human relationship will suffer hurt. Therefore we need to become better forgivers and confessors. We need to remember we all make mistakes; we are not perfect. Thus, the ability to reconcile will prove depth of your love and commitment to that other person.

Therefore the components of love, forgiveness, and commitment are necessary to trust in a relationship.