Need versus trust, what is this about? Needs are needs. Trust is trust. What do they even have to do with each other? Need versus trust?
There are needs that cannot be met. Those needs can only be satisfied by trust.
Huh? Say what??
The three pillars of insanity.
I’ve recently settled on three terms that label my own experience of my natural fears. These natural fears are uncertainty, poverty and powerlessness. These are natural fears because I “need to know” what to do, to get things done. I need to be ensured that I get what is mine. I need to control my days so that things go my way. Goals, plans, objectives. There’s nothing wrong with these. These are natural fears, my need for certainty, entitlement and control arising from these fears.
But these are also the three pillars of insanity. How so? Because I never really know anything. Sure, I may feel as if I know, but that doesn’t make it so. I am never entitled to success either. I try things that fail all the time. I’ll even try harder, and fail harder. I’m not entitle to anything, even life is a gift, not an entitlement. As for control, HA! I can’t even control myself at times, let alone the rest of the world too. I am powerless, that’s the truth of it.
What makes certainty, entitlement and control the pillars of insanity, is the belief—the delusion—that I’d have any of these, let alone all three, let alone, all the time. But having been insane, that is what I expected. I knew so. I felt it. Therefore, it must be so!
Nuts.
Knowledge: the emotion of religion. With the emotion of knowledge, religious feelings, I feel certain, entitled, in control. Long ago, I wrote that: “Knowledge is power.” I didn’t yet know better. Knowledge isn’t power, its insanity. I now refer to experience and understanding, in place of the word knowledge, because knowledge is more about emotion, then experience and understanding. The need for certainty, entitlement and control require insanity in order to be believed. Knowledge delivers that emotion of certainty, entitlement and control. People exhibiting certainty, entitlement and control are exhibiting insanity, because these can never be had. They hold themselves as knowledgeable.
Trust, the solution to unmet needs.
I want you to see that certainty, entitlement and control are desired, but also impossible. Think what you want, but thoughts don’t change reality. The solution to these unmeetable needs is trust.
How so? Trust in what?
God.
Oh great, here we go with that “God” shit again!
Well, yeah. Also known as reality, but not religion. Trust, not belief. There’s an important difference.
- Insanity is about certainty, entitlement, control.
- Trust is about not being certain, not being entitled, not being in control.
Trust in God, trust in reality. Trust in the immutability of reality, truth. The difference is in our experience and understanding. Fear wants certainty, entitlement and control. Trust relies on reality, productivity and cooperation. Fear demands and expects. Trust works towards the accomplishment of something wanted, learning, not knowing, expecting and demanding.
Trust in God is trust beyond your ability to see and understand. There can’t be certainty where you cannot see or understand. There can’t be entitlement where you cannot see or understand. There isn’t any control of things you can’t see or understand. There is only your experience and understanding and mindfulness in what you are doing, and why.
I call trusting beyond my ability to see and understand spiritual living. Using trust to meet needs that cannot be met, is spiritual living. Reality is certain, even though it is beyond our ability to see and understand. Faith, not belief.
So this whole thing is really about spiritual living?
Yes.
And now you’re going to talk about how “spirituality” is the first requirement of Americanism.
Yuppers. You’ve been reading my articles!
Spiritual Living.
There isn’t really a contest between Need and Trust. Trust meets needs that cannot be met. It helps me though, to look at it like that. When I limit myself to myself, I am lost. I have needs that I cannot possibly meet. So I rely on God.
I don’t know who or what God happens to be, nor do I have to. As a part of God’s creation, me, my life, is my part of God’s creation. I need not worry about being overlooked or forgotten. I trust this, and I’m okay because of it.
Uncertainty, poverty and powerlessness do not perturb me because I am productive, and my productivity doesn’t need the assurances of “certainty, entitlement and control.” I am assured by reality, by God, not my understanding of reality, or God.
Learn this, live this, and you’ll be happier. Probably even happy. You certainly won’t be scared and angry all the time, not from these things.
So that’s the “competition” between need and trust. There isn’t any. What we cannot not do for ourselves, even collectively, we can depend on God. Also known as reality. Reality is immutable, and always—always—reliable.
Think about it. Live and learn.
<cue emphatic lockout!> 🤠
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David Weeks, Information Developer, Tampa, Florida. God love us.