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Themes: Faith R.O. Sometimes when someone tries to explain something simple, it ends up seeming a lot less simple. The idea of trust is like that. It is hard to put it into words without making it hard to understand. Maybe the simplest way to explain trust is to find how many times in a day you and I "trust." When you roll out of bed and put your feet on the floor, you trust that the floor will hold you. You don't sit on the edge of your bed and worry that the floor will fall when you stand on it. You just stand up! Then, you look at your clock to make sure to be on time for school, and trust it to give you the right time. There is no reason to think it would give you the wrong time. So if you see "8:30," you assume that it is 8:30. Next you run down your street to catch the bus. You climb on, expecting the bus driver to bring you to school. It would be silly to ask the bus driver every morning if he was planning to stop at your school. Of course he is, so you trust him.
That is only the morning of the day. You can imagine the rest of the day and find many more examples of people and things that you trust every day.
One day, hundreds of years ago, a man came from Europe to a large piece of land that is now called the United States of America. He had been given a huge piece of ground and was coming to live on it. This man's name was William Penn. When he arrived on the land, Indians were living there. They quickly became friends with Mr. Penn and helped each other learn many new things. One day, the Indian chief promised Mr. Penn that he could have as much of the Indian's land as he could walk across in one day.
Early the next morning, William Penn began to walk. He walked until late at night. When he went to claim the land he had walked across, the Indians were very surprised that he had taken them up on their offer. Very simply, Mr. Penn trusted the Indians. They said he would be given as much land as he could walk across in one day. He walked all day and they gave him the land. The land is what we know as the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (named for Mr. William Penn).
The other important part of trust is what you trust in. If you trust your bicycle to make you fly, you are going to be very disappointed. You can't trust your bicycle to do something it is not able to do. Mr. Penn trusted the Indians, but what if they changed their minds? Or what if they didn't believe him when he said he had walked all day? Trust is only good if you trust someone or something reliable.
The great King David trusted in the most trustworthy Person. He trusted God. The Indians could have let William Penn down. They didn't, but they could have. God can never let anyone down. His Word cannot fail. He has said that we are sinners and that He will save us if we trust His Son. Trust is simple and it is all that God asks of us to take us to Heaven.
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Peter Orasuk
