God trusts us to listen and carry out His purpose through the individual talents He created and seeded within each of us. Vice versa, we trust God as we endeavor to carry out His call on each of our lives. However, do we ENTRUST the outcome to God, or do we fall prey (instead of pray) to trusting ourselves to accomplish everything through our wisdom, our power, our action and our effort.
If God trusts us enough to assign us a purpose, aren’t we supposed to confidently see our hands carrying the assignment through to completion? Absolutely, not!!! We are to see God’s Hands, not ours, as the means of accomplishment. Our hands are merely puppets on a string, being steered and controlled by the puppeteer — the Hands of God. Too often, we humans take pride in God trusting us with His work. Instead, we need to ENTRUST God to achieve His work by maneuvering us in a way that results in His mission being attained.
There is an additional insight into trust and ENTRUST which we would be wise to ponder. We trust God to solve our problems, but do we ENTRUST God with our problems. To trust, often, centers on trusting for a positive desired ending. To ENTRUST God with our problems is to rest in His peace, no matter what the end result is to be. If all a child of God knows and practices is trust, then when their faith is worldly shaken, it is possible for them to turn and walk away from God. If God’s child understands and lives by ENTRUST, then when their faith is worldly shaken, they rest in knowing God will never walk away from them.
Mine is the prayer that you, me and all God’s children stand not only on trust but also kneel firmly on the rock-solid foundation of ENTRUST.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 