Safekeeping All Valuables

"...for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day"  2 Timothy 1:12 NASB.

Do you trust that God is in control?  In His Sovereignty and through His Love, He cares for all His children.  Nothing can touch the Christian that hasn't come through His hand.  Your future is secure.  No matter what you are battling, or who you are worrying over, God can be trusted to care for you and your loved ones.

Jesus said, "I tell you do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or your body, what you will wear.  Life is more than food and the body more than clothes.  Consider the ravens, God feeds them.  And how much more valuable you are than birds!  Who by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"  Luke 12:22-26.  

I worry about my children and my grandchildren.   But aren't they more valuable than the birds?  God asks me to trust Him with them.  He asked me to be open handed with my very first child, I knew from the beginning that she was a gift from God that I was only God's caretaker of this precious life.  Every child belongs to God, I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him.  I have entrusted my soul to Him, by faith in Christ Jesus.  I have entrusted my loved ones to Him.  I have entrusted the Church, universal and each local congregation that I love, to Him.

This is not an attitude of "oh well I can't do anything about this anyway, I'll let go and let God."  No, it is an attitude of recognizing that the One who I offer things to with an open hand is trustworthy.  First and foremost I offer Him all of me, I trust Him with my soul, my life, my loves.  I trust Him with the blessings He pours out on my life.  I trust Him with the struggles and the sorrows He brings my way.  "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written:  'For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.'  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord"  Romans 8:35-39.

I have no fear because I know that God is watching over those I love.  "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth" 3 John 4.  Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.  I have confidence in Him.