(Yes, "trusty" is a word. It means "having served for a long time and regarded as reliable or faithful:")
Solomon wrote the famous, "Trust in YHWH with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths" (Pro 3:5-6). I bet some of you could quote it. And we like it. I mean "Trust in God" is a great message. But ... are we listening to it?
In Ephesians Paul told husbands to "love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her..." (Eph 5:25) and we husbands hear "love your wives" without looking at the explanations. "Wait? What does he mean, 'gave Himself up'?" (let alone the texts I left out) (Eph 5:25-27). In this text, we get "Trust God" and forget the entire rest of the text. Like ... "with all your heart." All? Wait ... that is extreme. Isn't "mostly" okay? "Do not lean on your own understanding." That is, in the process of trusting, don't require you understand it. Just trust. "How can a loving God create calamity? " (Isa 45:7) Don't wait to understand it. Believe it. "My God shall supply all your need" (Php 4:19). Don't wait to figure it out before you believe it. "In all your ways acknowledge Him." Do we even come close? Do we acknowledge Him when we dress in the morning? When we address friends, family, coworkers? Really, how much of our ways do we actually acknowledge Him, because I know if I think about it it's painfully small. And, really, are we really expecting Him to make our paths straight? "Don't worry, God. I got this."
We have a really big God. He is completely Sovereign and completely trustworthy. And we question Him. We give Him grief over His actions. We question His claims. Trust Him. Trust Him with all your heart. Trust Him without requiring you grasp it. Instead, trust Him by acknowledging Him at all times in all things. Let Him take care of things. Can you do that? We are a people of faith, but sometimes it seems more of the "little faith" variety.
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It seems to me that it should be spelled "Trust'y" since it seems to mean the same thing as trustworthy.
I think it should be made clear that the title is extremely important to this topic. We don't have a blind trust in Him. We have thousands of years of proof of His trustiness. Based on His history, we can trust in the times that we can't see the good that it will be for good.
Stan, I trust you will overlook it if, after confirming that I am indeed trusting in the trusty, trustable, and trusted Trustee of my soul, I can’t resist also commenting today, “Go, Eagles!!” If Craig (a Chiefs fan) sees this comment, you might need to moderate a bit of smack talk later between him and me! ;)
David, that seems to be the fundamental difference between "trustworthy" and "trusty." trustworthy means worthy of trust, but trusty means that it has a long history of being reliable. God is, on the face of it, trustworthy, but, given His history, as you point out, He is also trusty.
But doesn't one become worthy of trustby having a long history of being reliable? It seems that trusty is just a conjunction for trustworthy.
You have my condolences Craig.
I think the idea is, for instance, by virtue of Who He is, He is worthy of trust ... trustworthy. Experientially, however, we discover that He is trustworthy as well. There are passages of Scripture that declare His trustworthiness because of Who He is. There are special passages that declare His trustworthiness because of what He has done. Like that.
I feel bad for Craig, too (and other Chiefs fans). I’m really glad for the outcome because, truth be told, I’m probably not capable of much trash-talk--at least not about sports! :)
No trash talk from me. I tend to be pretty pessimistic about any big sporting events and we've been extremely fortunate to have gotten to experience the last few years. We had along run of bad football, it's been a lot of fun to see the good.
We went to KC to watch with friends and it was great to see how something like sports can provide so much unity.
Glad to hear it, Craig. I know that Eagles fans have a certain reputation, but I would only remark that it was great to see the Birds avenge themselves for Super Bowl LVII (and begin to establish their dynasty).
I agree that the comradery of sports is nice to experience (but maybe not in downtown Philly!). Of course, this “brotherhood” of sorts pales in comparison to the true fellowship that believers enjoy, as we live to exalt Almighty God.
Well, Philly fans do have the reputation of burning things down and other destruction after sporting events.
Well, now, that sounds a bit like trash-talk! :)
I'm not sure if it's trash talk as much as pointing out the history of bad behavior by Philly fans. Win or lose, stuff is likely to burn.
I guess you missed the pun in “trash-talk”--as in to trash (or destroy) things. In any case, your observation would be true for only some “Philly fans,” i.e. a very small subset of the huge Eagles fan base (and probably involves alcohol consumption by said offenders). (I can’t speak for the other Philadelphia sports teams or their fans, as I don’t follow them at all). The “certain reputation” to which I was referring in my comment above was really one of fierce loyalty and fervor, which of course many will take too far--but this is not applicable only to Eagles fans.
In any event, I appreciate Stan tolerating this off-topic football banter at this post.
I did miss that, sorry. While those hanging a black guy (Mahomes) in effigy, cooking a Mahomes pig, burning, looting, etc might be a "minority" I'm not sure I by that it's a tiny minority.
That so much of the teams focus in on tearing down KC, rather than celebrating their accomplishment, is also not a great look.
I concur that such behavior is not an appropriate expression of “Hooray for our side” (as Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967) by any stretch of the imagination and is certainly not condoned by the rest of the group.
I would like to say that I would normally not discuss sports anywhere online and certainly not at this blog (unless Stan introduced the topic). (I won’t even argue about religion, much less sports.) It just struck me as interesting, as this year’s Super Bowl approached, that among Stan’s regular commenters, there was both a Chiefs fan and an Eagles fan; thus my mention of a possible friendly “rivalry.” My remark was made in a totally convivial spirit, though--just to be clear.
Perhaps we’ll pick this up again next February! :)
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