…but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. – 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Why do we seek to be entrusted with more in life? Is it a secret desire to be counted as worthy? Is it to fill a longing within us to hold power? Perhaps our motivations for wanting to be entrusted with more comes our egotistical cravings for wanting to be needed. Whatever the reason, whether we welcome it or not, and regardless if we even deserve it, we find ourselves being entrusted with big things, important things, difficult things. For example, we are charged with managing people, budgets, policies, children, parents, and homes! We lose our minds and bend over backwards trying to be responsible for the things we have been entrusted with and in an act of pure lunacy, we forget that the very things we have been entrusted with are not worth the price of our meager lives. Now we get a little stupid here because we’re running around like rabid monkeys trying to accommodate everybody and everything entrusted to us but the biggest thing we have been entrusted with goes largely ignored and forgotten, trampled in a sense, by the multitude of smaller entrustments. I mean just think about. How much time do we spend handling the vast minutiae of responsibilities entrusted to us? I can probably say with a fair amount of certainty that we don’t give the larger, grander things we’ve been entrusted with much more than a quick glance. So these larger things don’t get the attention they really deserve. I mean how many times have we been caught out there dealing with smaller less important issues that we forget the larger picture? What are we really doing with the biggest thing we’ve been entrusted with? We have the most important thing entrusted to us by God and we will blatantly neglect it like roadkill on the side of a highway. We have been entrusted with the duty to give people the good news and we don’t do anything with that responsibility. That’s the problem. We don’t think enough about the people in our lives who we’ve been entrusted with to share the gospel– they get trapped underneath the clutter of smaller entrustments and our biggest responsibility becomes forgotten. We have been entrusted, as Christ followers, as messengers of Good News. The good news is that we would be dead, unforgiven, broken and spiraling towards death, but for the work of Jesus that redeems us into a new humanity and a renewed lease on life. Yet we don’t share that hope with people who desperately need it! I miss so many opportunities and often ignore opportunities to share that and live into the things that were entrusted to me. We have influence over people’s souls in disposition towards God’s heart! We can’t forget that we interject into people’s lives for a greater purpose than to simply pass them by and limit ourselves to mere conversation. We need to add to their lives as they add to our own. How you handle this responsibility dictates the answer for the real question at hand: whose trust do you want more? People or God’s? We’ve all be entrusted by God with the full glory and weight of His Good News, it’s time to do something with it.