My response was this: I think it is difficult to trust in God's goodness and mercy for two main reasons: 1) we like to be the ones in control and 2) worldly love is always conditional to some degree. If we trust in His goodness and mercy, we are allowing ourselves to be the beneficiaries of something that we don't deserve. We are accepting something from the Most Holy and what He gives and takes away is beyond our control. By trusting in and accepting this goodness, we are relinquishing control on a personal level. Why? Because nothing we did made us deserve these gifts.
The love we experience on earth is not comparable to God's love. Nothing can come close to the love He offers us. We are tempted to engage in a love relationship with the Lord as we do our other relationships... because that's what we know. We are being called to participate in something we have never done before. Be easy on yourself, you won't get it perfect. Here is the difference: We can never fully trust a fallen human being (and we are ALL fallen.) We can, however, trust our perfect Lord. He is spotless and holy and always will be. It is difficult to learn to trust God in this sense because it is an entirely different kind of love. Essentially, we are trusting in something we will never fully understand. And we must be ok with that. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not real. The kind of trust we have in the Lord will never survive a human relationship. Your expectations will always be too high, and you will always be disappointed. You cannot trust others to love you perfectly because they are imperfect. What you can do is choose to love anyway. And even when you get hurt, even when others let you down, even when the Lord is the only one you can lean on... you can love them anyway.
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