In line with Blogtember, the prompt today was to pass on some useful advice you learned and always remembered. I know that there has been a lot of useful advice given to me through the years, from school stuff, marriage, babies etc. But there was always this one piece of advice from my Grandma that I always remember. "Don't trust anyone, not even yourself." Kind of a downer huh? When I first heard that advice it kind of shocked me... You have to understand that this is coming from a woman who has been through a lot. Some of these things were very tragic and some came from poor decisions (as we all make from time to time). While shocking at first, I've really found it to be true in part. And with this I am focusing more on the "not even yourself part" because really in this world today how can you trust anyone anymore!
So if we really look at us as humans...we know we are going to fail sometime, it maybe something big, or maybe just a small thing-but we do fall short. We fail ourselves, we fail each other, even those we love. I always like to think of myself as a trustworthy person, however in reality because I am human, I don't feel I can fully trust my judgement or reactions, by my own power. I have to have my mind bent towards pleasing Him, and Him alone. Otherwise it is bent towards self. The Lord knows how guilty I am of breaking trust. But even through this depressing realization of my state, I have hope. Because there is One that can be trusted-and I'm thankful that I serve a God who is faithful and trustworthy while surrounded by a world that is not and He extends His grace to me.
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