In a small village far away, the whole community was suffering from drought, and the only way they could get water was through a very deep well. However, the well has a small opening that only one young boy in the village can fit through. No matter how much the strong men of the town urged him, the boy refused to climb down the well using the rope they held. He only consented when a slender man offered to grip the rope. After some pails of water were fetched, the strong men asked the boy why he decided to climb down with the thin man holding the rope. To their surprise, the boy answered, “He is my father. No matter how exhausted he is from carrying the rope for me, he refuses to let go.
Like the boy in the story, trust is the ability to leave all our cares and worries to a person we know will never leave or forsake us. In a world of imperfect creatures, trust is difficult to repose in just anyone. Just like the boy, he did not regard the physical appearance of the strong men who prodded him to climb down the well. Instead, he reposed his trust in only one man, his father.
Upon closer examination, the story highlights not only the young boy’s trust in his father but also the father’s belief in his son’s capability to complete the task and rely on his assistance to achieve it. The father could not have stepped in to hold the rope for his son if he didn’t believe so.
Like the father in the story, God has entrusted us to rebuild this nation. When He said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth,” He meant that we are responsible for making this world we live in a better place for everyone. For Filipinos, it meant making our nation a safe haven for all.
God trusts us so much that He believed we could do better and more beautiful things. If that is not the case, he could not have entrusted this nation to our care. He could not have put us in places of power if He did not believe that we could make significant moves in our spheres of influence. He could not have given us this responsibility to share the value focus weekly if He did not believe in our capacity to deliver.
Have we ever thought of someone we can trust because we believe that they can represent us well? We should embody these values as ambassadors and represent God, the Creator of these values. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him,” for “what He has begun, he will bring into completion.”
𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑵:
- Reflect on how you can strengthen the trust given to you by the people around you. If there are circumstances where partners lost their trust in you, humble yourself and ask what you can do to make it right. Be sincere in rebuilding their trust by fulfilling what you have promised to correct your mistake.
- Make a resolution to trust God to complete the work He has started in your life. Decide to surrender to Him everything: your worries, doubts, insecurities, and fears.
- Trust God that He can transform your family. Pray for your family members who are struggling to live a value-laden life. Trust God to fulfill your agency’s vision, mission, goals, and core values. Trust that He is also Sovereign in aligning all inaccuracies to righteousness. Trust God that He can transform the nation of the Philippines. Write a journal of all your prayers and leave a blank space to write how each is fulfilled
Values Restoration Officer: Dr. Aldwin T. Miranda
