That depends on what you’re trusting them to do. Can you trust a neighbor to pick up your mail while you’re on vacation? Quite probably, yes. You can always ask the post office to hold your mail, but can you trust them to do that?
When my parents go out of town for more than a day or two, they ask me to pick up the newspaper at a local convenience store. But I start work ridiculously early in the morning, so can’t get there until after noon. Most of the time the paper is sold out, so she asks them to hold a copy until I get there to pick it up. Can we trust them to do that?
As it turns out, no.
When they went on a ten-day trip recently they requested just that: please hold the paper so my son can pick it up after work. I get there on Day One and they don’t have one. “Maybe there’s one in the rack yet.” There was. So I asked them to make sure they have one the next day.
Day Two.
“Do you have a newspaper for my mother?”
“We don’t do that.”
“The guy I asked yesterday said you’d hold one.”
Disgusted look, turn to the back counter, and I can see them lift the note. “We didn’t do that.”
“Could you hold one tomorrow?”
“We don’t do that.”
You get the idea. Across those ten days I got the newspaper about half the time. Some of the workers were willing, others, “We don’t do that.”
Politicians, in my opinion, are the worst. They promise anything and everything to their constituencies and imply the other half of the American population is evil for wanting something different. They seldom follow through, even if they are able.
For the most part people follow one or the other of the two major political parties. The other one is evil and wants only to kill or maim or tax or pollute or ruin everything and everybody not on THEIR side of the political spectrum. A hint: they lie.
There’s only one person you can trust, and that’s God. He’s not a Democrat or Republican, He’s not the staff of a convenience store, nor does He work for the post office. He is the same today as He was yesterday, and will be for all eternity.
That’s the thing about perfection. If something’s perfect, and it changes, how can it still be perfect? It can’t. That’s why God doesn’t change.
Will people’s understanding of Him change? You bet. As the centuries pass (millennia, really), humanity’s view of God has changed. That doesn’t mean HE has, only that how we see Him is different.
Political parties change over time. What the Democrats and Republicans stand for today is different from what they were ten or twenty years ago. God doesn’t change, even across a thousand years, or ten thousand years. He is always faithful.
Unlike the staff at my local convenience store.
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