Trust

At Crusaders (a Christian youth group) we, the leaders, take turns at doing “The talk”. I always enjoy it when my father speaks and often we spend along time discuss the issue before had so we are prepared. Over the past few months my father has spoken on very interesting subjects, some which I would have liked to have blogged about (sadly I’m too busy). Last weeks subject was Trust but more specifically “Can God and other people trust you??"

Very often both Christians and Non Christian debate with themselves, and others, whether they can put there trust in some type of God; we get so focused of whether God, the bible, preachers etc. are trust-worthy. And there are so many books and much emphasis is put on this subject that it’s easy to forget that God has entrusted us with so much; he has given us the job of showing other people what God is like! For many people Christians (or those who profess to be Christians) are the only glimpse of God which they get to see, God is relying on Christians, trusting Christians show him to be who he is. His reputation is truly in their hands.

Society also is based on trust. Trusting that the driver won't drive on the path, your food will be cooked properly, the police will protect you and trusting your friends. It is so important that we are trust worthy and that means that we keep our word!

Today's Metro had this (advisable to read!!!) article which is about a site made by Creationist Christians called Conservapedia which, the paper claims, says things like: "...our flat Earth stays still while the Sun revolves around it." After reading the article I was rather annoyed at the Christians who had made the site. It seemed they weren't taking God's reputation very seriously as what they say is rather stupid and in some cases down right lies; Jesus/God's name was being dragged through the mud and laughed at nationally! The way the article is written laughs and ridicules "Christian" views and most probably reinforces the idea that belief in God is crazy in at least some of its readers, more people being pushed away by God. After a look at the site (getting the link) I found it was nothing like as bad as the paper suggests, if you look page which the flat earth comment comes from (http://www.conservapedia.com/Earth) the picture is of the earth as a circle!! The Metro are lying..... (I strongly advise you to have a look yourself and send them an email!!!)

This serves as a warning to us about trust: A. We can't trust the media! but also B. Christians or (who ever you are or are labelled as) need to know what your views are and need to be careful what we say so that people don't get the wrong end of the stick! It's so easy to be misinterpreted, be careful :D

The fact that God would send his son to die and rise again so that the whole human race could be saved is an amazing story. For me though its crazy that he then got humans tell the others, that he would then give you and me, all of humanity the job letting people know about is rather silly. It’s actually really scary and when I think about even how I’ve related to my friends this week since I started writing this blog I cringed at the damage I’ve done to Gods reputation! I pray that this week you'll live up to the trust God has put in you!!!