For all relationships to exist at a deeper level than just an association of connection, onto a friendship and then onto a relationship, it requires the ever development of ‘trust’, ’til the most exposing – a heart-to-heart trust.

When there is merely an association of connection, i.e. a business relationship where nothing personal is involved, written and witnessed commitment in a contract is required to uphold the accountability and security.

The next level up, is friendship where only limited personal involvement is entered into, for there is the beginnings of deeper inner exposure between two parts that displays a more casual dependence on each other, beginning to be based on experiencing an inner trust of commitment.

For example, when men went to war, they started off with a shallow and thin layer of trust. A trust that was more a ‘hope’ that the other soldier would perform to ensure safety and victory. But after a hard battle, when the grit and courage of others performance was witnessed because it was desperately needed, deep heart-to-heart bonds were established that endured for the rest of their lives.

as a relationship moves to more of a heart-to-heart trust, because more and more of a person’s life is in the hands of another, physically, emotionally and spiritually, then a foundation of trust becomes the critical foundation on which the connection and dependence is needed.

This trust is not only on the physical performance of a person, but also requires the display of emotional stability, but most importantly of all, the deep experience spritual goodness of righteous integrity, that there is no unseen or unrevealed evil or wickedness that will endanger.

Prior to The Fall, where Satan led them to believe that there was a dark side to the lover of their soul, they immediately shut their heart down and even justified their right to be angry at Him and therefore no longer bound to obey Him. How many times have we withdrawn our own hearts from someone that is close and dear to us, over one, in reality, small experience of disappointment?

We are very susceptible to the slightest discovery of evil present in the other heart, because trust based on the wounded and vulnerable hears in our fallen world is very fragile. The more we live from an expectation of trust, the more senseitive we need to be to protecting our wounded, fragile and vulnerable hearts and being.

So God takes dedicated time, gifting us with the “Gift of Trust”, based on His consistent experience of goodness and righteousness, teaching and enabling us to trust Him and therefore allowing Him to open our hearts to Him without fear.