Love always trusts?
Posted on November 12, 2009 by Pastor Tom
Isn’t it naive to always trust in love? The stories I hear from people in broken relationships often reveal betrayal, deceit and long term consequences. But 1 Corinthians 13 talks about a love that “always trusts” or “believes all things.”
How can this be? Upon further study, it became clearer that this trusting love is more willing to believe the best about people than the worst. It is more willing to assume good motives rather than bad motives.
I don’t think it means we give up discernment. But this love fights back when an immediate negative thought about another jumps into our mind with no factual basis. It’s a hard balance to maintain – discernment and trust. But we need not project one negative experience in a relationship onto every other relationship in our lives.
That’s just one nugget in the deep mine known as 1 Corinthians 13.
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