Part 7: Trust Issues
THE 5 LOVE LANGUAGES: TRANSLATING LOVE - PART 7
The currency of relationships is trust.
1. THE REALITY: WE’VE ALL HAD OUR TRUST BROKEN, AND WE’VE ALL BROKEN THE TRUST OF OTHERS.
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”
Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT)
“Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.”
Philemon 7 (NIV)
“Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul—an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains.”
Philemon 8-10 (NIV)
“I am sending him—who is my very heart—back to you... Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever—no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.”
Philemon 12,15-16 (NIV)
“So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me.”
Philemon 17-18 (NIV)
2. THE PROBLEM: WHO CAN WE TRUST?
“This is what the Lord says: ‘Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.’”
Jeremiah 17:5-6 (NLT)
3. THE DANGER: WE CAN BECOME CYNICAL.
Without trust, we lose hope.
“It (love) always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
1 Corinthians 13:7 (NIV)
God says: Please don’t close the door on trust.
“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NLT)
MY NEXT STEP TODAY IS TO:
Trust in the Lord and ask Him to help me grow in trust.
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