Blind Faith

In the recent past, I had a taste of what the result of blind faith on persons who are on a different level in human relations can really be. Very rarely do we come across persons, who have absolute trust in every person they come in touch with, including strangers, not realizing how dangerous and suicidal that can lead to. But needless to say, if we are able to create a world where we can blindly trust anyone, we need not look for the heavens then.

Selfishness and greed know no bounds and limits, and every time we trust a person, we are taking certain things for granted, and that is the reasonable risk that we can afford to take in the case of the people with whom we rub shoulders each day. But can we do the same with the people who have but a business or employer-employee relationship? Another important question that we can ask ourselves is : how much can I really trust a person?

Every person before being trusted or claiming trust-worthiness should prove him/herself. There cannot be grounds for trusting a person, if they were not sufficiently trusted. We have thousands of examples around us which show blind faith and trust in persons will invariably lead us to our own downfall. We cannot forget the fact that the world is not as sane and secure as we thought it to be. If there is one honest trustworthy person, there are nine more wicked, selfish, greedy persons around us. And most often we may fall in the hands of such wicked men and women, and may ultimately lose our face.

Every relationship, even if it is a business related, or customer related, is based on certain amount of trust. When I purchase cooking oil, I trust the shopkeeper will not give me adulterated oil, which may only lead to manifold sickness. I also trust the shopkeeper will not take more money than the just price. But can we take that for granted. Even the people who can afford to be cheated, would not take the words of the shopkeeper seriously and pay the money as demanded. The price stamp is made mandatory so that the customers are not cheated, and we have the duty to check the stamp and pay accordingly, and do not give scope for people to exploit our generosity.

What is the kind of faith that God has on the human beings? Is it the blind faith or the kind of faith that scrutinizes and challenges us? Trust is something that is to do with my relationship with the other person. If I prove myself to be trustworthy, I may experience God as one who accepts me with blind faith; but for some others God may also come across as the one who challenges their trust. Here there is nothing which is better or worse. These two are just two ways of relating to a person. But when I know that God trusts me as I trust him blindly, the relationship is in a higher plain than the other, and that is merely a matter of privilege, we can be happy about.