"Everyone I trusted has hurt me, so I can't trust anyone ever again."
How it sounds in your head: My husband lied for decades. My children don't visit. The church forgot me. At 94, I've learned walls are safer than vulnerability. Everyone leaves or lies eventually.
"Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his plans perish. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God."
-- Psalm 146:3-5Enemy: Uses accumulated betrayals to convince you isolation is wisdom, that God's nature is proven by people's failures.
She has decades of evidence—friends who vanished, family who disappointed, a spouse who betrayed. Every scar tells her walls work better than hope.
Naomi lost her husband and both sons, renamed herself 'Bitter,' said God had testified AGAINST her. Within one harvest season, God gave her Ruth, Boaz, a grandson in the Messianic line, and community declaring 'the LORD has not left you without a redeemer.'
I REFUSE the lie that everyone betrays eventually. IT IS WRITTEN that the LORD Himself goes before me and will be WITH me; He will never leave me nor forsake me (Deuteronomy 31:8). My trust is NOT in man but in the God of Jacob, whose plans for me are good and whose faithfulness extends to a thousand generations. IT IS WRITTEN that I am Abraham's seed, heir according to PROMISE (Galatians 3:29), covered by the BARAK blessing that protected even liars and deceivers. I declare: my Father has NEVER betrayed me, and His kindness is leading me home. Walls fall; His arms remain.
Your Father sees every betrayal as theft from His daughter. He's not asking you to trust people again—He's offering to BE your trust, closer than your own breath, carrying you when everyone else dropped you. The Prodigal's father had been WATCHING for his return—your Father has been watching over YOU, every lonely day.