I’ve been wanting to do a mini-series on the subject of trust for some time now, so I’m excited to be embarking on this. I think sometimes that as “people of faith” and believers in unseen realms and powers, Christians are expected by society to have some kind of strange propensity towards trusting in anything that sounds religious-y or divine destiny-y. Yeah, I just mangled the English language real bad. Oops, there I go again.

The point I want to make is that Christians struggle with the issue of trust just as much as anyone else. In some ways, I think we have it harder. The easy way out is to say “I’m not going to trust in something I can’t hold in my hand and understand.” It’s hard to trust in something so much bigger, so much more mysterious, so much more profound than anything we can grasp in the natural world. Sometimes it’s so difficult that’s it’s tempting to give up. But the wise man understands the limits of his understanding. Only a fool thinks it’s possible to obtain all knowledge through human reason alone. There are certain things that can only be grasped through personal experience and spiritual awareness.

In this sometimes glorious, sometimes dizzying, sometimes dangerous quest to entrust ourselves to the God we serve, it is helpful to consider the ways of trust and the facets of faith made manifest by our actions. As this series unfolds, I hope to relay some of the metaphors that come to my mind when I think about trust. The first one may be a surprising one: trust as disillusionment. What, you say? What on earth does trust have to do with disillusionment? Well, you’ll just have to tune in next week to find out.