Peter Roselle: Possessing Your Vessel - Basic Trust
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2020-01-23

Human growth requires certain accomplishments. This class covers the stages of development each of us must go through, as well as the tasks associated with them. Because these stages are sequential as well as successive, healthy and timely growth requires that children learn them in the proper order (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11). Basic trust is the first and foremost of developmental accomplishments, without which the succeeding lessons cannot be well learned. Failure to acquire basic trust affects us throughout our adult lives, impacting our ability to relate to God and others.

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The “developmental year,” which is a means of measuring developmental
accomplishments, may occur from six months to three years,
depending upon the individual. Geniuses often develop slowly.
Let the reader know that in the first 
“developmental year” of a child’s life, basic trust is gained, or it isn’t. 

Basic trust is 
• that capacity to hold the heart open, to risk sustained heart-to-heart 
involvement with imperfect people. 
• the inner strength and resilience necessary to human relationships,
• the capacity to remain vulnerable to people who cannot always be believed.
From the moment of birth, 
a baby enters a pilgrimage from dependence to independence. 
As Christians we aspire to  inter-dependence with Father, Son & Holy Spirit,
as we mature within of the Body of Christ.
In the womb,  a fetus is totally encased and dependent upon mother  (and father!).
At birth, a baby becomes his or her own 
organic entity. If the newborn’s body does not function independently 
from the mother’s, the child may not survive.
Independence (or leaving) is the first 
and continuing price of ongoing life.
John 5
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, 
I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees 
the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself 
does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the 
Son gives life to whom He will.

“If we were abused physically or emotionally as children, we will have 
“foundation stones” of fear, rejection, anger, and a thousand variations. 
We will need to have basic trust restored in us before we can reach 
out with confidence to Father God, or to any authority figure.”
“Incorporation” (building basic trust) and “Individuation” 
(maturing as an individual; reaching who we were designed to be) 
are interwoven tasks which alternate in predominance 
and importance throughout life.
A baby remains organically dependent - for food, warmth, cleansing, 
for every life-sustaining function. 

He can do nothing for himself, except to eat, breathe, sleep and eliminate.
Each lesson learned is a step towards independence:
cessation of breast feeding, 
toilet training, walking, talking, 
dressing, accomplishing courtesy,
manners, customs, morals, etc. 
Teen-age individuation and internalization 
cut some invisible umbilical cords, but not all.
The next individuation or incorporation cannot be 
entered unless the previous is successfully completed. 
Immediately after birth, the first necessity is to learn to be corporate. 
A baby must learn to open his spirit, to flow into others and 
receive others to himself.  He must learn capacity to hold open 
to others despite woundings.
The next step of individuation is for the child to learn to 
say “no.” If a child at two has not accomplished the corporate task 
of basic trust, he cannot master the next task of individuation.
It takes courage for a two-year-old to say “no” to those adults 
who supply everything he must have to survive. 
His saying “no” is a practice in the art of individuating, 
of saying, “I am not you” and “You are not me,” 
and “I am my own person.”
If he cannot successfully individuate (by saying no), 
he cannot graduate to the next lesson of incorporation, 
to enter the peer age, to play with - instead of 
alongside of - others. He must then either dominate 
and control or go along meekly with the group’s decisions.