Trust

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines trust as:

1 a faith or confidence in the loyalty, veracity, reliability, strength, etc., of a person or thing
3 the obligation or responsibility placed in a person who is trusted or relied on

I like these two definitions and they go hand in hand. Putting your trust in someone is exercising faith in their loyalty to you and in their reliability and strength (assuming that they have both, and that you have bore witness to it). To the one being trusted, you have an obligation or responsibility to live up to the loyalty, reliability, and strength that you have been attributed.

Those who love us (like really love us), always tell us to trust them and many have lived up to their demand. Of course, we are only human and are prone to fail (and have failed) someone's trust before - perhaps out of love or just plain mistake. In any case, we trust those who love us (because they want to be trusted) and for the most part, they have remained loyal, reliable, and a source of strength to us.

What more when we put our trust in the unfailing love of our Lord and God, Jesus Christ?

Numerous times in the Word we are told of people who did and did not put their trust in God. While those who didn't reaped the consequences, those who did reaped the benefits. And the Word is so clear of the benefits that come with trusting God in anything and everything:

He answered their prayers because they trusted in Him. 1 Chronicles 5
Those who know your name will trust you, for you, Lord, have never foresaken those who seek you. Psalm 9
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him and I am helped.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your path straight. Proverbs 3

These are just a few! But my heart and mind are comforted by the absolute fact that God can be trusted and obliges himself to fulfill what His Word tells us comes when we trust in Him.