Trust

Trust. I feel like trust is a word that is subject to interpretation. I feel like it's a word that most people can look at and each one can come up with a different meaning. According to the dictionary, trust is a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something; acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation; the state of being responsible for someone or something; believe in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of. Personally, I have a really hard time trusting people. The nature of man is to act with self-interest, obviously there are those who are more selfish than others, but I believe that everyone has some sense of selfishness behind every decision they make.
However, what about G-d? How on earth could we say that G-d is acting in self-interest, when we are constantly taught that Hashem has our best interest at heart and that he acts only in our benefit. Even though we know that Hashem clearly doesn't act in self-interest, it's understandable why someone would have a hard time just doing anything and everything that is asked of us.
We learned in class (I guess I'm there sometimes) that when Hashem asked Avraham to get up and go, he had no idea where He was leading him to -- but he went. This is so crazy for me, even though Hashem had made promises to Avraham.. it wasn't anything that would happen right now -- so how did he just get up and go without even thinking?! It's actually crazy stuff. I know people always say trust is the foundation of every relationship, but clearly this goes above and beyond that saying. Avraham and Hashem's relationship clearly was based off of something far more than what trust is today. Just as we said that we should always strive to be the perfect nation that Hashem expects us to be, I think that this is the same thing. Although we can't quite understand their relationship or how to attain such a strong relationship with Hashem, we should always strive to reach that.