“Trust me”, there’s more than one…

Well I seem to come in contact with the phrase ‘trust me’ quite a lot and I was just thinking about how many different ones there are.  I'll list a few...

There’s the ‘trust me’ when you’re being encouraged into adventure, whether it be full of wisdom or otherwise.  On a whole, it’s a great ‘trust me’ especially considering that an often used ‘trust me’ is usually accompanied by an eye roll due to your clear ignorance on a subject. That would be the rude ‘trust me’.

Sometimes the ‘trust me’ is an explanation of someone’s past experience.  It can be an account without giving an account.  A way someone lets you know that they’ve gone through a horrible suffering and so they have an understanding of a situation you don’t.  And you wish they hadn’t had to learn of it.

Another explanation ‘trust me’ can be interjected due to remorse by the one who caused a suffering.  It's somewhat like a warning.   And you find yourself or people you love to be capable of things you thought were reserved for abstract villains in novels.

 

Also there’s one that in its nature is exceedingly heart piercing and delightful.  The one that sometimes comes to you as you watch the sun cast shadows all around you and it looks as though the leaves and branches dance.  Or you hear a whisper of it from some quiet corner of your soul.  Or it seems spelled out in what broken pieces lay before your eyes.

It’s the ‘trust Me’ from the truest friend, from your greatest love.  The ‘trust Me’ that brings salve to the wound in your spirit, or helps you to go on breathing.  The ‘trust Me’ that isn’t fleeting, that can wrap its comfort around you time and again because it never diminishes in truth or ability.  His ‘trust Me’ is the one that when heeded gives Him glory and you sweetness and peace in this life.

 

“Trust on! trust on; thy failings
May bow thee to the dust,
But in thy deepest sorrow,
O give not up thy trust.

Trust on! Tho’ dark the night and drear;

Trust on! The morning dawn is near.”

- Unknown