Many years ago, my husband was laid off at a heating/air/conditioning plant after working there for 29 years. During those years, he had learned all about the workings of the furnaces and air conditioners that he had helped build during his time there. The company paid for more training for anyone interested and so for several months he attended classes every day for awhile. With all he had learned throughout the years and the experience he had, he decided to start his own heating and cooling business.
Because we were established in our community as church members and with our kids in clubs like 4-H and so on, and the fact that he didn't charge people an arm and a leg for his services, he actually did pretty well so far as getting customers. But a couple years later, we had started attending my dad's church due to a situation that arose in his own life that had made it difficult for him to get to church on his own for awhile. During that time, we met some of his friends and one was a very nice widowed lady. One day after hearing what my husband did for a living, she asked me if I had a hard time trusting him as he went out on his service calls. After all there were women out there. Did I have a problem with that?
I told her no. And that was the truth. I never worried about him going on his calls. It just never occurred to me. I wondered if she had had trust issues in her life at some point but it wasn't something I, as a younger person felt I could ask her. It was not any of my business and anyway she was around my dad's age.
I trusted my husband. I believed him. And that is what true love is. I was never suspicious that he was out doing what he was not supposed to be doing. There was never any question, never any doubt. If I had been jealous or suspicious, it would have really caused friction between us that could have escalated into who knows what, especially if there was no need to be.
Someone that truly loves another person, always believes the best about that person. Always ready to look past of anything that might damage the relationship. Always ready to forgive if and when the relationship fails and a break-up occurs.
When there is distention in the Church among members, it can be it's down fall and cause people to leave. The Church can split and fall apart. And for some when that happens, they will leave the faith altogether. I have seen it happen.
But in a church where people seek to forgive others they have disagreements or problems with, it goes a long way in a church that is truly a church where God can abide. Where people can be ministered to.
True love is trust. It is believing the best. And it is believing in God because when all else fails, he is who we can trust. He is who we can believe.
May 31, 2019 Promise: But the Son of man is come to save that which is lost. Mathew 18:11
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