QUERY ON WORD “TRUST” AND DERIVATIVES
By Mark Kurtz; August 2016 from a PDF version of The Urantia Book
(Note: The word “intrusted” is used many times in the UB. Perhaps we should consider mortal mission service to fellows as a “trust” for sharing Michael’s tasks of upgrading Urantia through the FEF.)
1 1:7.1 “When Jesus talked about “the living God”, he referred to a personal Deity — the Father in heaven. The concept of the personality of Deity facilitates fellowship; it favors intelligent worship; it promotes refreshing trustfulness.”
2 2:6.1 “In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God”.
3 2:6.1 “Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God”.
4 2:6.3 “Blessed is the man who trusts him.”
5 3:5.8 “Is hope — the grandeur of trust — desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.”
6 10:1.6 “Since the Paradise Sons of God visit the evolutionary worlds and sometimes even there dwell in the likeness of mortal flesh, and since these bestowals make it possible for mortal man actually to know something of the nature and character of divine personality, therefore must the creatures of the planetary spheres look to the bestowals of these Paradise Sons (Jesus as Michael of Nebadon) for reliable and trustworthy information regarding the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.”
7 23:2.4 “7. Revelators of Truth. The Solitary Messengers regard the assignment to reveal truth as the highest trust of their order.” Perhaps we ought to consider we are trusted to service mission to our fellow Urantians.
8 26:4.13 “When, through and by the ministry of all the helper hosts of the universal scheme of survival, you are finally deposited on the receiving world of Havona, you arrive with only one sort of perfection — perfection of purpose. Your purpose has been thoroughly proved; your faith has been tested. You are known to be disappointment proof. Not even the failure to discern the Universal Father can shake the faith or seriously disturb the trust of an ascendant mortal who has passed through the experience that all must traverse in order to attain the perfect spheres of Havona.” Perhaps we are asked to experience trust in the Father as we share the FER teachings. Perhaps we could be absolutely dedicated to purpose for the FER.
9 28:6.9 “3. The Import of Time. Time is the one universal endowment of all will creatures; it is the “one talent” intrusted to all intelligent beings. You all have time in which to insure your survival; and time is fatally squandered only when it is buried in neglect, when you fail so to utilize it as to make certain the survival of your soul. Failure to improve one’s time to the fullest extent possible does not impose fatal penalties; it merely retards the pilgrim of time in his journey of ascent. If survival is gained, all other losses can be retrieved.” We are all given time during which we may serve one another.
10 28:6.13 “4. The Solemnity of Trust. Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character. These seconaphim accomplish a double purpose in the economy of the superuniverses: They portray to all will creatures the sense of the obligation, sacredness, and solemnity of trust. At the same time they unerringly reflect to the governing authorities the exact trustworthiness of any candidate for confidence or trust.” Notice the word “solemnity” regarding trust in us and of all other beings.
11 28:6.14 “On Urantia, you grotesquely essay to read character and to estimate specific abilities, but on Uversa we actually do these things in perfection. These seconaphim weigh trustworthiness in the living scales of unerring character appraisal, and when they have looked at you, we have only to look at them to know the limitations of your ability to discharge responsibility, execute trust, and fulfill missions. Your assets of trustworthiness are clearly set forth alongside your liabilities of possible default or betrayal.”
Think carefully about this statement: ---“weight trustworthiness in the living scales of character appraisal”----“…discharge responsibility, execute trust, and fulfill missions.” ---“Your assets of trustworthiness…” “…alongside your liabilities.”. Imagine how highly important is TRUST.
12 28:6.15 “trust capacity of the individuals of time and space.”
13 28:6.16 “appreciation of the solemnity of trust.”
14 28:6.20 “The ascending pilgrims having awakened to the import of time, the way is prepared for the realization of the solemnity of trust and for the appreciation of the sanctity of service.”
15 32:5.8 “The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.” From a Mighty Messenger who is telling us to faithfully trust and act on mission in sharing.
16 39:5.7 “4. The Spirits of Trust. Suspicion is the inherent reaction of primitive men; the survival struggles of the early ages do not naturally breed trust. Trust is a new human acquisition brought about by the ministry of these planetary seraphim of the Adamic regime. It is their mission to inculcate trust into the minds of evolving men. The Gods are very trustful; the Universal Father is willing freely to trust himself — the Adjuster — to man’s association.”
Evidence here of high importance of trust!
17 92:4.7 “3. Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God’s favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.”
18 94:0.1 “THE early teachers of the Salem religion penetrated to the remotest tribes of Africa and Eurasia, ever preaching Machiventa’s gospel of man’s faith and trust in the one universal God as the only price of obtaining divine favor.
19 97:5.2 “Isaiah went on to preach the eternal nature of God, his infinite wisdom, his unchanging perfection of reliability. He represented the God of Israel as saying: “Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet.” “The Lord will give you rest from your sorrow and from your fear and from the hard bondage wherein man has been made to serve.” “And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘this is the way, walk in it.’” “Behold God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord is my strength and my song.”
20 100:7.7 “Of Jesus it was truly said, “He trusted God.” As a man among men he most sublimely trusted the Father in heaven. He trusted his Father as a little child trusts his earthly parent. His faith was perfect but never presumptuous. No matter how cruel nature might appear to be or how indifferent to man’s welfare on earth, Jesus never faltered in his faith. He was immune to disappointment and impervious to persecution. He was untouched by apparent failure.”
21 100:7.9 “He (Jesus) could maintain this confident attitude because of his unswerving trust in God and his unshakable confidence in man.”
22 101:0.3 “And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience. The feeling of religious assurance is more than an emotional feeling. The assurance of religion transcends the reason of the mind, even the logic of philosophy. Religion is faith, trust, and assurance.”
23 “101:2.4 “There are two basic reasons for believing in a God who fosters human survival: 1. Human experience, personal assurance, the somehow registered hope and trust initiated by the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
24 101:2.13 “Religion consists not in theologic propositions but in spiritual insight and the sublimity of the soul’s trust.
25 101:2.14 “Your deepest nature — the divine Adjuster — creates within you a hunger and thirst for righteousness, a certain craving for divine perfection. Religion is the faith act of the recognition of this inner urge to divine attainment; and thus is brought about that soul trust and assurance of which you become conscious as the way of salvation, the technique of the survival of personality and all those values which you have come to look upon as being true and good.”
26 101:3.6 “2. Produces a sublime trust in the goodness of God even in the face of bitter
disappointment and crushing defeat.”
27 101:3.10 “6. Maintains a divine trust in ultimate victory in spite of the cruelties of seemingly blind fate and the apparent utter indifference of natural forces to human welfare.”
28 101:8.3 “Faith has falsified its trust when it presumes to deny realities and to confer upon its devotees assumed knowledge. Faith is a traitor when it fosters betrayal of intellectual integrity and belittles loyalty to supreme values and divine ideals. Faith never shuns the problem-solving duty of mortal living. (emphasis mine) Living faith does not foster bigotry, persecution, or intolerance.”
29 101:9.8 “2. Religion creates for the human mind a spiritualized consciousness of divine reality based on, and by faith derived from, antecedent concepts of moral values and coordinated with superimposed concepts of spiritual values. Religion thereby becomes a censor of mortal affairs, a form of glorified moral trust and confidence in reality, the enhanced realities of time and the more enduring realities of eternity.”
30 102:1.1 “But honest doubts and sincere questionings are not sin; such attitudes merely spell delay in the progressive journey toward perfection attainment. Childlike trust secures man’s entrance into the kingdom of heavenly ascent, but progress is wholly dependent on the vigorous exercise of the robust and confident faith of the full-grown man.”
31 102:8.1 “The highest evidence of the reality and efficacy of religion consists in the fact of human experience; namely, that man, naturally fearful and suspicious, innately endowed with a strong instinct of self-preservation and craving survival after death, is willing fully to trust the deepest interests of his present and future to the keeping and direction of that power and person designated by his faith as God. That is the one central truth of all religion.”
32 103:9.5 “The ideal of religious philosophy is such a faith-trust as would lead man unqualifiedly to depend upon the absolute love of the infinite Father of the universe of universes. Such a genuine religious experience far transcends the philosophic objectification of idealistic desire; it actually takes salvation for granted and concerns itself only with learning and doing the will of the Father in Paradise. The earmarks of such a religion are: faith in a supreme Deity, hope of eternal survival, and love, especially of one’s fellows.”
33 110:1.6 “Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you…”
34 110:4.4 “Trust all matters of mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Adjusters. In due time, if not in this world then on the mansion worlds, they will give good account of their stewardship, and eventually will they bring forth those meanings and values intrusted to their care and keeping.”
35 111:1.9 “Mind is your ship, the Adjuster is your pilot, the human will is captain. The master of the mortal vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to guide the ascending soul into the morontia harbors of eternal survival.
36 111:5.3 “Mortals live in God, and so God has willed to live in mortals. As men trust themselves to him, so has he — and first — trusted a part of himself to be with men; (emphasis mine) has consented to live in men and to indwell men subject to the human will.”
37 111:7.1 “Uncertainty with security is the essence of the Paradise adventure — uncertainty in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise ascent; security in spirit and in eternity, security in the unqualified trust of the creature son in the divine compassion and infinite love of the Universal Father; uncertainty as an inexperienced citizen of the universe; security as an ascending son in the universe mansions of an all-powerful, all-wise, and all-loving Father.” May we also include our feelings of uncertainty about our role(s) with the revelation?
38 117:4.3 “God is so trusting, so loving, that he gives a portion of his divine nature into the hands of even human beings for safekeeping and self-realization.”
39 120:1.3 Immanuel to Michael before the Urantia incarnation: “And when you shall have finished this bestowal experience, you will know in very truth the full meaning and the rich significance of that faith-trust which you so unvaryingly require all your creatures to master as a part of their intimate relationship with you as their local universe Creator and Father.”
40 131:1.8 “God saves those who trust him; he does not compel man to serve his name.”
41 131:2.3 “Blessed is the man who trusts God. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
42 131:2.8 ““Yahweh is the God of my salvation; therefore in the divine name will I put my trust. I will trust in the Lord with all my heart; I will lean not upon my own understanding. In all my ways I will acknowledge him, and he shall direct my paths. The Lord is faithful; he keeps his word with those who serve him; the just shall live by his faith.””
43 133:1.4 Ganid, “I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me — this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary.”
44 136:9.8 Regarding Jesus: “He would return to Galilee and quietly begin the proclamation of the kingdom and trust his Father (the Personalized Adjuster) to work out the details of procedure day by day.” Notice trust his TA to work out details!
45 137:8.8 Jesus, “….and trusting dependence of a little child…”
46 140:3.14 Jesus, “put your trust in the Father whose messengers you are.”
47 140:5.14 “It is easy to teach this admonition even to a child. Children are naturally trustful, and parents should see to it that they do not lose that simple faith.”
48 140:6.2 Jesus, “You must start out afresh as little children and be willing to trust my teaching and believe in God.
49 140:6.13 Jesus, “You are intrusted with a great work, and I crave your undivided service. You know that it has been well said: ‘No man can serve two masters.’”
50 140:8.2 “1. Doing the Father’s will. Jesus’ teaching to trust in the overcare of the heavenly Father was not a blind and passive fatalism. He quoted with approval, on this afternoon, an old Hebrew saying: “He who will not work shall not eat.” He pointed to his own experience as sufficient commentary on his teachings. His precepts about trusting the Father must not be adjudged by the social or economic conditions of modern times or any other age.” His instruction embraces the ideal principles of living near God in all ages and on all worlds.
In other words, we cannot use excuses during our age times for not helping the Master. Could this be right?
51 149:6.11 Jesus, “And it was to emphasize the value of sincerity and perfect trust in the loving support and faithful guidance of the heavenly Father that I have so often referred to the little child as illustrative of the attitude of mind and the response of spirit…”
52 163:4.12 Peter to the seventy evangelists, “3. Faith and trust. They must go forth on this short mission wholly unprovided for; they must trust the Father for food and shelter and all other things needful.”
53 170:2.1 “1. Faith, sincerity. To come as a little child, to receive the bestowal of sonship as a gift; to submit to the doing of the Father’s will without questioning and in the full confidence and genuine trustfulness of the Father’s wisdom; to come into the kingdom free from prejudice and preconception; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.”
54 Faithfulness is the unerring measure of human trustworthiness. He who is faithful in little things is also likely to exhibit faithfulness in everything consistent with his endowments.”
55 174:0.2 “To the Alpheus twins he said: “Do not allow the things which you cannot understand to crush you. Be true to the affections of your heart and put not your trust in either great men or the changing attitude of the people. Stand by your brethren.”
In other words, did Jesus mean don’t be detracted by so-called great speakers and influential people; stay loyal to His teachings?
56 176:3.4 Jesus telling a parable about talents, “…called all his trusted servants before him and delivered into their hands all his goods.”
57 176:3.6 Jesus, “And so should you go about the work of the Father’s business, now and henceforth, even forevermore. Carry on until I come. In faithfulness do that which is intrusted to you,….” Even do what is trusted in us today.
58 192:2.7 The resurrected Jesus: “When they returned to the others, Jesus went for a walk and talk with Andrew and James. When they had gone a short distance, Jesus said to Andrew, “Andrew, do you trust me?” And when the former chief of the apostles heard Jesus ask such a question, he stood still and answered, “Yes, Master, of a certainty I trust you, and you know that I do.” Then said Jesus: “Andrew, if you trust me, trust your brethren more — even Peter. I once trusted you with the leadership of your brethren. Now must you trust others as I leave you to go to the Father. When your brethren begin to scatter abroad because of bitter persecutions, be a considerate and wise counselor to James my brother in the flesh when they put heavy burdens upon him which he is not qualified by experience to bear. And then go on trusting, for I will not fail you.” Note the emphasis on trust. Andrew was no longer the Apostles’ Chief and now he is facing a change---to trust others’ judgments.
59 192:2.8 Again, the Morontial Jesus, “Then Jesus turned to James, asking, “James, do you trust me?” And of course James replied, “Yes, Master, I trust you with all my heart.” Then said Jesus: “James, if you trust me more, you will be less impatient with your brethren. If you will trust me, it will help you to be kind to the brotherhood of believers. Learn to weigh the consequences of your sayings and your doings. Remember that the reaping is in accordance with the sowing.” From Jesus we observe he intends trust from each person and understands each person’s character. Divinity adjusts responses to each person’s need, as in these examples for the two Apostles.
60 193:2.2 The Morontial Jesus, “And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spiritborn and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace.”
61 193:3.2 The Morontial Jesus, “As the Father sent me into the world, so do I send you. And I wish that you would love and trust one another.” “Trust, therefore, and confide in one another. And this is all the more needful since I am this day going to leave you alone in the world. Here is still more emphasis on trust.
62 194:3.12 “The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust.”
63 195:5.8 “Religion is designed to find those values in the universe which call forth faith, trust, and assurance; ….
64 196:0.3 “In the very face of all the natural difficulties and the temporal contradictions of mortal existence, he experienced the tranquillity of supreme and unquestioned trust in God and felt the tremendous thrill of living, by faith, in the very presence of the heavenly Father.
65 196:0.11 “His faith was not immature and credulous like that of a child, but in many ways it did resemble the unsuspecting trust of the child mind. Jesus trusted God much as the child trusts a parent. He had a profound confidence in the universe — just such a trust as the child has in its parental environment. Jesus’ wholehearted faith in the fundamental goodness of the universe very much resembled the child’s trust in the security of its earthly surroundings. He depended on the heavenly Father as a child leans upon its earthly parent, and his fervent faith never for one moment doubted the certainty of the heavenly Father’s overcare. He was not disturbed seriously by fears, doubts, and skepticism. Unbelief did not inhibit the free and original expression of his life. He combined the stalwart and intelligent courage of a full-grown man with the sincere and trusting optimism of a believing child. His faith grew to such heights of trust that it was devoid of fear.”
66 196:0.12 “The faith of Jesus attained the purity of a child’s trust. His faith was so absolute and undoubting that it responded to the charm of the contact of fellow beings and to the wonders of the universe. His sense of dependence on the divine was so complete and so confident that it yielded the joy and the assurance of absolute personal security. There was no hesitating pretense in his religious experience. In this giant intellect of the full-grown man the faith of the child reigned supreme in all matters relating to the religious consciousness. It is not strange that he once said, “Except you become as a little child, you shall not enter the kingdom.” Notwithstanding that Jesus’ faith was childlike, it was in no sense childish.” So, trust as pure as being childlike is a model for us all.
67 196:1.5 “…to trust God as he trusted God and to believe in men as he believed in men.”
By Mark Kurtz; August 2016 from a PDF version of The Urantia Book
(Note: The word “intrusted” is used many times in the UB. Perhaps we should consider mortal mission service to fellows as a “trust” for sharing Michael’s tasks of upgrading Urantia through the FEF.)
1 1:7.1 “When Jesus talked about “the living God”, he referred to a personal Deity — the Father in heaven. The concept of the personality of Deity facilitates fellowship; it favors intelligent worship; it promotes refreshing trustfulness.”
2 2:6.1 “In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God”.
3 2:6.1 “Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God”.
4 2:6.3 “Blessed is the man who trusts him.”
5 3:5.8 “Is hope — the grandeur of trust — desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.”
6 10:1.6 “Since the Paradise Sons of God visit the evolutionary worlds and sometimes even there dwell in the likeness of mortal flesh, and since these bestowals make it possible for mortal man actually to know something of the nature and character of divine personality, therefore must the creatures of the planetary spheres look to the bestowals of these Paradise Sons (Jesus as Michael of Nebadon) for reliable and trustworthy information regarding the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.”
7 23:2.4 “7. Revelators of Truth. The Solitary Messengers regard the assignment to reveal truth as the highest trust of their order.” Perhaps we ought to consider we are trusted to service mission to our fellow Urantians.
8 26:4.13 “When, through and by the ministry of all the helper hosts of the universal scheme of survival, you are finally deposited on the receiving world of Havona, you arrive with only one sort of perfection — perfection of purpose. Your purpose has been thoroughly proved; your faith has been tested. You are known to be disappointment proof. Not even the failure to discern the Universal Father can shake the faith or seriously disturb the trust of an ascendant mortal who has passed through the experience that all must traverse in order to attain the perfect spheres of Havona.” Perhaps we are asked to experience trust in the Father as we share the FER teachings. Perhaps we could be absolutely dedicated to purpose for the FER.
9 28:6.9 “3. The Import of Time. Time is the one universal endowment of all will creatures; it is the “one talent” intrusted to all intelligent beings. You all have time in which to insure your survival; and time is fatally squandered only when it is buried in neglect, when you fail so to utilize it as to make certain the survival of your soul. Failure to improve one’s time to the fullest extent possible does not impose fatal penalties; it merely retards the pilgrim of time in his journey of ascent. If survival is gained, all other losses can be retrieved.” We are all given time during which we may serve one another.
10 28:6.13 “4. The Solemnity of Trust. Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character. These seconaphim accomplish a double purpose in the economy of the superuniverses: They portray to all will creatures the sense of the obligation, sacredness, and solemnity of trust. At the same time they unerringly reflect to the governing authorities the exact trustworthiness of any candidate for confidence or trust.” Notice the word “solemnity” regarding trust in us and of all other beings.
11 28:6.14 “On Urantia, you grotesquely essay to read character and to estimate specific abilities, but on Uversa we actually do these things in perfection. These seconaphim weigh trustworthiness in the living scales of unerring character appraisal, and when they have looked at you, we have only to look at them to know the limitations of your ability to discharge responsibility, execute trust, and fulfill missions. Your assets of trustworthiness are clearly set forth alongside your liabilities of possible default or betrayal.”
Think carefully about this statement: ---“weight trustworthiness in the living scales of character appraisal”----“…discharge responsibility, execute trust, and fulfill missions.” ---“Your assets of trustworthiness…” “…alongside your liabilities.”. Imagine how highly important is TRUST.
12 28:6.15 “trust capacity of the individuals of time and space.”
13 28:6.16 “appreciation of the solemnity of trust.”
14 28:6.20 “The ascending pilgrims having awakened to the import of time, the way is prepared for the realization of the solemnity of trust and for the appreciation of the sanctity of service.”
15 32:5.8 “The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.” From a Mighty Messenger who is telling us to faithfully trust and act on mission in sharing.
16 39:5.7 “4. The Spirits of Trust. Suspicion is the inherent reaction of primitive men; the survival struggles of the early ages do not naturally breed trust. Trust is a new human acquisition brought about by the ministry of these planetary seraphim of the Adamic regime. It is their mission to inculcate trust into the minds of evolving men. The Gods are very trustful; the Universal Father is willing freely to trust himself — the Adjuster — to man’s association.”
Evidence here of high importance of trust!
17 92:4.7 “3. Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God’s favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.”
18 94:0.1 “THE early teachers of the Salem religion penetrated to the remotest tribes of Africa and Eurasia, ever preaching Machiventa’s gospel of man’s faith and trust in the one universal God as the only price of obtaining divine favor.
19 97:5.2 “Isaiah went on to preach the eternal nature of God, his infinite wisdom, his unchanging perfection of reliability. He represented the God of Israel as saying: “Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet.” “The Lord will give you rest from your sorrow and from your fear and from the hard bondage wherein man has been made to serve.” “And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘this is the way, walk in it.’” “Behold God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord is my strength and my song.”
20 100:7.7 “Of Jesus it was truly said, “He trusted God.” As a man among men he most sublimely trusted the Father in heaven. He trusted his Father as a little child trusts his earthly parent. His faith was perfect but never presumptuous. No matter how cruel nature might appear to be or how indifferent to man’s welfare on earth, Jesus never faltered in his faith. He was immune to disappointment and impervious to persecution. He was untouched by apparent failure.”
21 100:7.9 “He (Jesus) could maintain this confident attitude because of his unswerving trust in God and his unshakable confidence in man.”
22 101:0.3 “And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience. The feeling of religious assurance is more than an emotional feeling. The assurance of religion transcends the reason of the mind, even the logic of philosophy. Religion is faith, trust, and assurance.”
23 “101:2.4 “There are two basic reasons for believing in a God who fosters human survival: 1. Human experience, personal assurance, the somehow registered hope and trust initiated by the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
24 101:2.13 “Religion consists not in theologic propositions but in spiritual insight and the sublimity of the soul’s trust.
25 101:2.14 “Your deepest nature — the divine Adjuster — creates within you a hunger and thirst for righteousness, a certain craving for divine perfection. Religion is the faith act of the recognition of this inner urge to divine attainment; and thus is brought about that soul trust and assurance of which you become conscious as the way of salvation, the technique of the survival of personality and all those values which you have come to look upon as being true and good.”
26 101:3.6 “2. Produces a sublime trust in the goodness of God even in the face of bitter
disappointment and crushing defeat.”
27 101:3.10 “6. Maintains a divine trust in ultimate victory in spite of the cruelties of seemingly blind fate and the apparent utter indifference of natural forces to human welfare.”
28 101:8.3 “Faith has falsified its trust when it presumes to deny realities and to confer upon its devotees assumed knowledge. Faith is a traitor when it fosters betrayal of intellectual integrity and belittles loyalty to supreme values and divine ideals. Faith never shuns the problem-solving duty of mortal living. (emphasis mine) Living faith does not foster bigotry, persecution, or intolerance.”
29 101:9.8 “2. Religion creates for the human mind a spiritualized consciousness of divine reality based on, and by faith derived from, antecedent concepts of moral values and coordinated with superimposed concepts of spiritual values. Religion thereby becomes a censor of mortal affairs, a form of glorified moral trust and confidence in reality, the enhanced realities of time and the more enduring realities of eternity.”
30 102:1.1 “But honest doubts and sincere questionings are not sin; such attitudes merely spell delay in the progressive journey toward perfection attainment. Childlike trust secures man’s entrance into the kingdom of heavenly ascent, but progress is wholly dependent on the vigorous exercise of the robust and confident faith of the full-grown man.”
31 102:8.1 “The highest evidence of the reality and efficacy of religion consists in the fact of human experience; namely, that man, naturally fearful and suspicious, innately endowed with a strong instinct of self-preservation and craving survival after death, is willing fully to trust the deepest interests of his present and future to the keeping and direction of that power and person designated by his faith as God. That is the one central truth of all religion.”
32 103:9.5 “The ideal of religious philosophy is such a faith-trust as would lead man unqualifiedly to depend upon the absolute love of the infinite Father of the universe of universes. Such a genuine religious experience far transcends the philosophic objectification of idealistic desire; it actually takes salvation for granted and concerns itself only with learning and doing the will of the Father in Paradise. The earmarks of such a religion are: faith in a supreme Deity, hope of eternal survival, and love, especially of one’s fellows.”
33 110:1.6 “Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you…”
34 110:4.4 “Trust all matters of mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Adjusters. In due time, if not in this world then on the mansion worlds, they will give good account of their stewardship, and eventually will they bring forth those meanings and values intrusted to their care and keeping.”
35 111:1.9 “Mind is your ship, the Adjuster is your pilot, the human will is captain. The master of the mortal vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to guide the ascending soul into the morontia harbors of eternal survival.
36 111:5.3 “Mortals live in God, and so God has willed to live in mortals. As men trust themselves to him, so has he — and first — trusted a part of himself to be with men; (emphasis mine) has consented to live in men and to indwell men subject to the human will.”
37 111:7.1 “Uncertainty with security is the essence of the Paradise adventure — uncertainty in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise ascent; security in spirit and in eternity, security in the unqualified trust of the creature son in the divine compassion and infinite love of the Universal Father; uncertainty as an inexperienced citizen of the universe; security as an ascending son in the universe mansions of an all-powerful, all-wise, and all-loving Father.” May we also include our feelings of uncertainty about our role(s) with the revelation?
38 117:4.3 “God is so trusting, so loving, that he gives a portion of his divine nature into the hands of even human beings for safekeeping and self-realization.”
39 120:1.3 Immanuel to Michael before the Urantia incarnation: “And when you shall have finished this bestowal experience, you will know in very truth the full meaning and the rich significance of that faith-trust which you so unvaryingly require all your creatures to master as a part of their intimate relationship with you as their local universe Creator and Father.”
40 131:1.8 “God saves those who trust him; he does not compel man to serve his name.”
41 131:2.3 “Blessed is the man who trusts God. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
42 131:2.8 ““Yahweh is the God of my salvation; therefore in the divine name will I put my trust. I will trust in the Lord with all my heart; I will lean not upon my own understanding. In all my ways I will acknowledge him, and he shall direct my paths. The Lord is faithful; he keeps his word with those who serve him; the just shall live by his faith.””
43 133:1.4 Ganid, “I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me — this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary.”
44 136:9.8 Regarding Jesus: “He would return to Galilee and quietly begin the proclamation of the kingdom and trust his Father (the Personalized Adjuster) to work out the details of procedure day by day.” Notice trust his TA to work out details!
45 137:8.8 Jesus, “….and trusting dependence of a little child…”
46 140:3.14 Jesus, “put your trust in the Father whose messengers you are.”
47 140:5.14 “It is easy to teach this admonition even to a child. Children are naturally trustful, and parents should see to it that they do not lose that simple faith.”
48 140:6.2 Jesus, “You must start out afresh as little children and be willing to trust my teaching and believe in God.
49 140:6.13 Jesus, “You are intrusted with a great work, and I crave your undivided service. You know that it has been well said: ‘No man can serve two masters.’”
50 140:8.2 “1. Doing the Father’s will. Jesus’ teaching to trust in the overcare of the heavenly Father was not a blind and passive fatalism. He quoted with approval, on this afternoon, an old Hebrew saying: “He who will not work shall not eat.” He pointed to his own experience as sufficient commentary on his teachings. His precepts about trusting the Father must not be adjudged by the social or economic conditions of modern times or any other age.” His instruction embraces the ideal principles of living near God in all ages and on all worlds.
In other words, we cannot use excuses during our age times for not helping the Master. Could this be right?
51 149:6.11 Jesus, “And it was to emphasize the value of sincerity and perfect trust in the loving support and faithful guidance of the heavenly Father that I have so often referred to the little child as illustrative of the attitude of mind and the response of spirit…”
52 163:4.12 Peter to the seventy evangelists, “3. Faith and trust. They must go forth on this short mission wholly unprovided for; they must trust the Father for food and shelter and all other things needful.”
53 170:2.1 “1. Faith, sincerity. To come as a little child, to receive the bestowal of sonship as a gift; to submit to the doing of the Father’s will without questioning and in the full confidence and genuine trustfulness of the Father’s wisdom; to come into the kingdom free from prejudice and preconception; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.”
54 Faithfulness is the unerring measure of human trustworthiness. He who is faithful in little things is also likely to exhibit faithfulness in everything consistent with his endowments.”
55 174:0.2 “To the Alpheus twins he said: “Do not allow the things which you cannot understand to crush you. Be true to the affections of your heart and put not your trust in either great men or the changing attitude of the people. Stand by your brethren.”
In other words, did Jesus mean don’t be detracted by so-called great speakers and influential people; stay loyal to His teachings?
56 176:3.4 Jesus telling a parable about talents, “…called all his trusted servants before him and delivered into their hands all his goods.”
57 176:3.6 Jesus, “And so should you go about the work of the Father’s business, now and henceforth, even forevermore. Carry on until I come. In faithfulness do that which is intrusted to you,….” Even do what is trusted in us today.
58 192:2.7 The resurrected Jesus: “When they returned to the others, Jesus went for a walk and talk with Andrew and James. When they had gone a short distance, Jesus said to Andrew, “Andrew, do you trust me?” And when the former chief of the apostles heard Jesus ask such a question, he stood still and answered, “Yes, Master, of a certainty I trust you, and you know that I do.” Then said Jesus: “Andrew, if you trust me, trust your brethren more — even Peter. I once trusted you with the leadership of your brethren. Now must you trust others as I leave you to go to the Father. When your brethren begin to scatter abroad because of bitter persecutions, be a considerate and wise counselor to James my brother in the flesh when they put heavy burdens upon him which he is not qualified by experience to bear. And then go on trusting, for I will not fail you.” Note the emphasis on trust. Andrew was no longer the Apostles’ Chief and now he is facing a change---to trust others’ judgments.
59 192:2.8 Again, the Morontial Jesus, “Then Jesus turned to James, asking, “James, do you trust me?” And of course James replied, “Yes, Master, I trust you with all my heart.” Then said Jesus: “James, if you trust me more, you will be less impatient with your brethren. If you will trust me, it will help you to be kind to the brotherhood of believers. Learn to weigh the consequences of your sayings and your doings. Remember that the reaping is in accordance with the sowing.” From Jesus we observe he intends trust from each person and understands each person’s character. Divinity adjusts responses to each person’s need, as in these examples for the two Apostles.
60 193:2.2 The Morontial Jesus, “And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spiritborn and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace.”
61 193:3.2 The Morontial Jesus, “As the Father sent me into the world, so do I send you. And I wish that you would love and trust one another.” “Trust, therefore, and confide in one another. And this is all the more needful since I am this day going to leave you alone in the world. Here is still more emphasis on trust.
62 194:3.12 “The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust.”
63 195:5.8 “Religion is designed to find those values in the universe which call forth faith, trust, and assurance; ….
64 196:0.3 “In the very face of all the natural difficulties and the temporal contradictions of mortal existence, he experienced the tranquillity of supreme and unquestioned trust in God and felt the tremendous thrill of living, by faith, in the very presence of the heavenly Father.
65 196:0.11 “His faith was not immature and credulous like that of a child, but in many ways it did resemble the unsuspecting trust of the child mind. Jesus trusted God much as the child trusts a parent. He had a profound confidence in the universe — just such a trust as the child has in its parental environment. Jesus’ wholehearted faith in the fundamental goodness of the universe very much resembled the child’s trust in the security of its earthly surroundings. He depended on the heavenly Father as a child leans upon its earthly parent, and his fervent faith never for one moment doubted the certainty of the heavenly Father’s overcare. He was not disturbed seriously by fears, doubts, and skepticism. Unbelief did not inhibit the free and original expression of his life. He combined the stalwart and intelligent courage of a full-grown man with the sincere and trusting optimism of a believing child. His faith grew to such heights of trust that it was devoid of fear.”
66 196:0.12 “The faith of Jesus attained the purity of a child’s trust. His faith was so absolute and undoubting that it responded to the charm of the contact of fellow beings and to the wonders of the universe. His sense of dependence on the divine was so complete and so confident that it yielded the joy and the assurance of absolute personal security. There was no hesitating pretense in his religious experience. In this giant intellect of the full-grown man the faith of the child reigned supreme in all matters relating to the religious consciousness. It is not strange that he once said, “Except you become as a little child, you shall not enter the kingdom.” Notwithstanding that Jesus’ faith was childlike, it was in no sense childish.” So, trust as pure as being childlike is a model for us all.
67 196:1.5 “…to trust God as he trusted God and to believe in men as he believed in men.”