Entrust Your Life to Him

Are you trusting God with every aspect of your life? Are you putting everything of importance into His hands to securely hold? If not, you’re liable to lose it all.

November’s Awakening, Day 21

Dear Lord, although I am sure of my position, I am unable to sustain it without you. Help me or I am lost.

 —Martin Luther

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

—Corrie ten Boom

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Psalm 143:8 NIV

            It should be comforting for us to know that even great icons of the Christian faith needed to rely upon and trust in God daily. Are you willing to trust solely in Him and cry out “Dear Lord, help me or I am lost.”? And remember Paul’s thorn? Whatever is was, God refused to remove it and simply said that His grace was sufficient in weakness to make Paul even stronger. We must trust in those types of situations that God knows best and desires the best for us, contrary to what we may deem as best in our limited mindset.

            Give it to God. All of it. If you’re holding on to everything of importance in your own limited strength and understanding, you will often dishearteningly see the world strip it away. We are not the best of managers of anything good, only He is. And He truly knows what is essential and important and of true value. Some things we simply need to let go of, and most things we need to put into His hands. In our hands, it’s just like sifting sand, blowing away in the whimsical breeze and falling through the cracks.