Distrust

When a child first catches adults out-- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgements are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just-- their world falls into a panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of the gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. (John Steinbeck)

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. (John 2:24)

One of the keys to trust is knowing when to distrust. We want to believe in people--be they parents, friends, or idols. But seriously, they are going to let us down. We've got to figure out how to walk the line between "love always trust" and "Jesus would not entrust himself to them".

Good luck.


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