You don't HAVE to trust him. When he's saying the right things, paying attention to the right things, and TALKING about the right things, send people his way. When he's not, don't.
Why do people get so wrapped up with "trusting" this person or that person? To me this is always a sign that they haven't quite understood that true trust means a) trusting in God through a relationship with God and b) learning to trust yourself - to be trustworthy yourself.
If you feel like (or know that) you are not trustworthy - because of all the faults you either consciously or unconsciously recognize or imagine in yourself - you cannot really trust God, nor can you truly trust any other person.
Remember: Jesus doesn't trust us because we are trustworthy. He trusts us because HE is trustworthy.
When you truly know who you are and have a relationship of trust with God, you can give trust to others, not because you think you can rely on them, but because you have the inner strength to focus on the good in others instead of the flaws.
People seem to put "trust" in the basket of : I can project my responsibility to evaluate, or choose, or decide, on that person, (so that I no longer have to carry it). The part in brackets they think subconsciously.
You don't HAVE to trust him. When he's saying the right things, paying attention to the right things, and TALKING about the right things, send people his way. When he's not, don't.
Why do people get so wrapped up with "trusting" this person or that person? To me this is always a sign that they haven't quite understood that true trust means a) trusting in God through a relationship with God and b) learning to trust yourself - to be trustworthy yourself.
If you feel like (or know that) you are not trustworthy - because of all the faults you either consciously or unconsciously recognize or imagine in yourself - you cannot really trust God, nor can you truly trust any other person.
Remember: Jesus doesn't trust us because we are trustworthy. He trusts us because HE is trustworthy.
When you truly know who you are and have a relationship of trust with God, you can give trust to others, not because you think you can rely on them, but because you have the inner strength to focus on the good in others instead of the flaws.
People seem to put "trust" in the basket of : I can project my responsibility to evaluate, or choose, or decide, on that person, (so that I no longer have to carry it). The part in brackets they think subconsciously.