The issue of trust is important in all areas of life, especially in public life. It’s a huge area of concern, for instance, in politics – who can we trust? We’ve also seen that it’s a big concern in other areas of public life: in sport and in entertainment.
Recent news items have highlighted the importance of trust. Ant and Dec have returned an award that they received – the People’s Choice Award at the 2005 British Comedy Awards. The award should have gone to Catherine Tate because she polled most votes, but Ant and Dec were given the award instead, for some inexplicable reason.
It seems that Robbie Williams was invited to present an award, and he indicated that he was happy to do so if Ant and Dec were going to be recipients of the award. In order to ensure his attendance, he was given that assurance. But the investigation into the error could not determine how the error took place.
Yes, trust is important. And that leads me to think of my own life, and whether I am someone who can be trusted.
There is one, whose word is to be trusted – and that is God himself.
ADDENDUM
There’s now another article on the BBC news website, where the BBC admits keeping over £100k of premium-rate phone-in money which should have been given to charity. This issue doesn’t seem to be drawing to a close any time soon!
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