Trusting to fail

I'm not going to lie to you people, I don't have a complete comprehension of all of the possible implications of that previous quote. But I have some understanding.

The reality is that people fail us, they let us down, and yet trust means giving others the freedom to make those mistakes. If you're not prepared to accept the possibility of their failure, then you're not really trusting them. Hmm, I'm not sure if that makes sense or is at all true, but just bear with me.

Part of our humanity seems permanently laced with failure. That goes for everyone, even Christians. gasp. I know, I know, it's hard to believe but it's true. What about God? Does God fail? Well, most theists would probably say "no", but those are some murky theological waters, in terms of the suffering and injustice that needs to be explained, so I'm not even going to debate the issue.

We'll just say God doesn't fail at being God.

The concept of trusting God doesn't mean that we trust God to fail, for failure is not a part of the Transcendent Reality. Individuals fail, societies fail, nations fail, and frankly humanity, in general, fails.

Trusting in someone seems to be more about trusting them to be who they are. God's trustworthiness usurps our human untrustworthiness. There are no guarantees that things will ever go as planned, that other humans will live up to our expectations and not let us down. That can be depressing. Not that humans always fail one another. Far from it. But the potential is there.

God, on the otherhand, is ultimately trustworthy.

At least that's what I keep telling myself when I look upon my life and ask, "What the hell is going on here?"