What has God Entrusted you with?

What does it mean for you and me to be entrusted with something that belongs to God?  

This question can cause us discomfort.  Why because we know that ultimately everything we have is from God.  7:30 At the offertory what is it we say:  All things come of Thee oh Lord, and of Thine own have we given Thee. 

This is quite a proclamation we are making.  If it is true, which it is, what does it mean for us to be entrusted with such responsibilities that all things would include?

Perhaps we can break it down a little bit to help us all grab hold of something.  

You and I, as Christians have been entrusted with the Faith that has been past down to us from over 2000 years ago.

You and I have been entrusted with the Word of God that was first delivered to Moses and found fulfillment in Jesus.  This Holy Book in which people have died to protect while delivering it to nations and in which others could not die without.  

 You and I have been entrusted as sons and daughters to parents.

We have been entrusted as employees and some as employers.

Some have been entrusted with the sacred gift of marriage.

Some have been entrusted with the sacred gift of children.

We have been entrusted by God with millions of dollars.  You may say not me, but in the course of your life with the salary you made while working or are currently making, how many millions of dollars will pass through your bank account in a lifetime?

We have been entrusted with God’s power working within us to accomplish all that He has prepared in advance for us to do.

Whether we realize it or not by coming to God by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, God has entrusted great riches to us His children.

In each of our text this morning, we hear that God desires for you and me. We hear God's desire for everyone who comes to know the power of His forgiveness and depths of His love.  We hear God;s desire to be about His purposes in the way that we live the life of grace, the life we have been entrusted with.

 In the Scripture accounts we read how the Nation of Israel often neglected what God had entrusted to them and then God had to act in some way to realign the Nation to what His purposes were.  When this would take place it was painful.  Painful because people had to let go of what they thought was bringing them life and get to the place where they would actually call out to the giver of life.  Only by coming to the end of themselves would new life would be born.