BELIEVE VS TRUST; A STORY FROM THE RICH DAD COACH

BELIEVE VS TRUST; A STORY FROM THE RICH DAD COACH

Years ago, a preacher told me a story about trusting God. He said a guy strung a rope across Niagara Falls and told the crowd watching him, “I’m going to ride my bicycle across this rope.” Everybody cheered and said, “Yeah, George. Go for it, George. Yeah, we believe in you, George. We believe in you.”

 Old George then climbs on his bicycle and he starts pedaling across, and pedaling, and pedaling. He’s wobbling, but he gets to the other side. He then turns around and pedals back. Everybody’s cheering, the closer he gets the louder they cheer and everybody’s jumping up and down saying, “Yes, George. We believed in you. Yes, George.”

Once he is safely back, he says to the crowd, “Who wants to sit on the handlebars and go across with me?” No one accepts the offer. While they all believe in George, no one trusts him.  There’s a difference between belief and trust. Just then, out of the crowd, a little girl raises her hand and says, “I’ll go with him.”

 The crowd gasps and pleads, “Don’t go.  That’s too risky.  That’s dangerous. What do you think you’re doing?” George says, “Come here little girl,” and with that she climbs on the handlebars.  The crowd begins screaming and calling George names.  They’re yelling, “How dare you?” George begins pedaling across the falls and the crowd is screaming at him.  They don’t like him at all.
 One moment they believed in him, now they hate him. George pedals across, the crowd sees him turn around, and he gets closer again.  The crowd finally realizes that George and the little girl on the front handlebars are going to make it. George and the little girl reach the end, the little girl climbs off, and the crowd starts cheering again, “George, you’re wonderful!”

 A reporter goes up to the little girl and asks, “What caused you to get on the handlebars when nobody else would?”  The little girl answered, “I climbed in the basket because this man is my father. I don’t just believe in him; I trust in him.”  That’s the difference between belief and trust.

Credit; the rich dad poor dad coach Robert Kiyosaki