Trust Always

 DEVOTION

THE 1^ST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS

TRUST ALWAYS

1 Cor 13:4-7

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

NIV

Love always protects, trusts hopes, and perseveres. With the wall we have built around those we love, protecting them and any of their secrets, we turn our attention to trust. It is interesting the Greek word pisteuo, is an intransitive verb, which does not need a direct object. This word carries the direct meaning; to think to be true, to be persuaded of; to credit, place confidence in. It is used of the thing believed being evident from the preceding context. Yet, specifically, of the conviction and trust to which a person is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of his soul. This can be seen in our complete trust in Jesus, or that God is able to do anything. However, this word in its forms is also used as trust in an ethical sense, of confidence in the good of men, which is how it is used in this verse, however, it is also to entrust a thing to someone. Therefore, as we apply this to the concept of loving each other, and how this love demands the way we interact with the members of the body of Christ, of course, all the definitions relate directly to our relationship to marriage. Once again, trust is a two-way street, it is reciprocal. We put our trust, and our confidence in the other person to be true and right, to the point that we could share a need, or an inner struggle with complete confidence that information will remain solely between the two of us and the information shared will not affect the relationship between them. This is that two-way street, as when we are made privy to a situation, where someone comes to us to share a need or an inner struggle, we will keep confidence, or keep the highest standard of confidence as if this is a highly classified secret, and we redact the whole of the share data, so to speak. That is no one else will ever be able to see, hear, read, or gain knowledge of the information shared with us. We will trust you, have confidence in you to hold our inner needs and struggles and you can be sure that we will hold with absolute assurance your inner needs and struggles, because love always, and that is not sometimes, but always trusts. Always is a good word, as the Greek word pas, pasa, pan, in each form, means every, any, and always. It is infinite, in that sense, never ever revealing anything about what was shared. Love always trusts.