Trust

Lately, I have been looking at the word trust, mostly for humans, within the bible. There was an experience that I had about a week ago where I was being told to trust God. I was surrounded by people and yet, I was being told to trust God. I trust God with all of my heart...Proverbs 3:5-6.* My question for myself was why couldn't I trust when I trusted God completely and I trusted the people enough. The only verse I could find about trusting man was Jeremiah 17:5.* I had a conversation a couple of nights about this as well. The lady I was talking with said that she does not believe that we are supposed to trust in all humans, but there are some people that we need to trust because we lean on one another in this world. I agree with her to an extent. Trust does not come easily to me, but I still believe that everyone deserves respect. Whether they lose it or not is up to them, but every person deserves a chance. The way it sounded, she was saying that people have to earn whatever respect or trust you give to them. I disagree. Now, that was somewhat off topic, but it ties in. So, I was stuck with these two verses which were saying "Do not trust in man, but trust in God completely." So are there people that you need to trust, yes. Are there people you should not trust, yes. Should you trust only in God? I believe not, however I believe that you have to trust in God to know who you can trust on the Earth.

*Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; (6) in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

Jeremiah 17:5 "This is what the Lord says: 'Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.' "

People

As I was out and about today, I realized something about people. People are almost always lying or fibbing. Now, I'm sure everyone reading this does too...at least every once in a while. So as I walked with a relative into the restaurant, the lady asked "How are you?" My relative's response was "I'm good." Now, this was interesting to me because we had just been in the car talking about how bad she was feeling. Some people are always walking around with smiles on their faces. Is this because they are always happy? Are they on happy pills? Or are they using it as a cover? Sure, for some people it might be that they just always tend to be happy, but is that true for all people? I highly doubt it. As I was having a conversation with a close friend earlier this evening, I realized something else. Things are not always as they seem. Especially when it comes to people and emotions. As we spoke, he opened up to me about his life at this moment and some things that he said shocked me. He is one of the people that I was talking about earlier, always has a smile on his face no matter his mood. The problem is, in this world we all need help. Whether we need help moving because we are physically incapable of lifting, or we need advice from friends because life is giving us problems, we all need help. My question is, why do we hide the help we need? Why do we walk around with smiles on our faces, deceiving the people that we see everyday when we may in fact be needing them? As humans, I believe it is in our nature to trust. From the day you are born, you trust your parents and as you get older, you start to trust friends. So why is it that as we get into adolescence and adulthood that we deny the trust that we once had for a false mask that we choose to put on daily. It is just a show and if you can't truly be yourself...then who does that make you?