Where Is Your Trust 2 Of 2

Trust is something the Psalmist dealt with in this Psalm. He showed us three places where people place their trust during the days he lived here on earth.

• Some trusted in the chariots

• Some trusted in the horses

• Some trusted in the Lord

We dealt with two important things that God expects us to do. They concern:

• Our Tithes

• Our Talents

GOD TRUSTS US WITH SO MUCH, BUT HOW LITTLE WE TRUST HIM.

It is amazing to stand under a starry sky and look at the millions of stars above and realize God has placed us as stewards over all His creation.

Illus: Imagine going into the Walmart corporation office and asking to see the CEO and you are taken to a luxurious office and an eight-year-old child is sitting behind the desk.

I feel that way when I look at all God has placed us mortals as stewards over. Some have done a very good job at what God has placed in their hands.

Illus: Martha Berry was a lady with a vision to help children. She began a school for poor children. She had no books, no building and no money. But she had a dream.

She went to Henry Ford to ask for a donation. Mr. Ford reached into his pocket gave Martha Berry a dime. Most people would have been insulted, here he is a multi-millionaire and all he could give was a dime.

But Martha took that dime and bought a packet of seeds and planted a garden, raised a crop, sold it and bought more seeds.

After three or four harvests, she had enough money to purchase an old building for the children. She returned to Mr. Ford and said, “Look what your dime has done.” The man was so impressed that he donated a million dollars to her school.

God has given some people so much in this life, but many have never discovered how to take the talents God gave them, and develop them and trust Him to accomplish anything with their life.

Illus: "A newspaper fired Walt Disney because he had "no good ideas" (McGinnins, p. 34).

Listen to the rest of the story about Mr. Disney. "It is reported that Walt Disney was not only a remarkable man but also a remarkably happy man. Somewhere recently there was a story about his early years. When he started out in Kansas City, he couldn’t sell his cartoons. Some hinted that he had no talent. Disney had a dream, so he set out to conquer his foes. He found a minister who paid him a small amount to draw advertising pictures for his church. Disney had no place to stay, so that the church let him sleep in the mouse-infested garage. One of those mice, which Disney nicknamed Mickey, became famous - as the world knows. How satisfying life must have been for Disney when he remembered the hard struggle from lean years spent in a church garage". (Ernest A. Fitzgerald. Keeping Pace: Inspirations In The Air. Greensboro: Pace Communications Inc. 1988, p. 18).

We are to trust the Lord with OUR TITHES and OUR TALENTS, but also-

III. WE ARE TO TRUST THE LORD WITH OUR TIME

WHAT IS TIME? TIME IS LIFE!

If I give you ten minutes of my time I have given you the most valuable gift I can give you. I have given you ten minutes of my life. BECAUSE MY LIFE IS MY TIME!

In this life, we only have so many seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. We can not afford to waste any of life.

The most valuable gift that we can give the Lord Jesus is TIME, because when we do this we are giving Him OUR LIFE!

One of the greatest wastes in the world today is the waste of LIFE. It seems that many folks do not know a thing about that.

Illus: They remind me of a man that did not know anything about skydiving and goes skydiving for the first time. He excitedly jumps out of an airplane with a parachute strapped to his back.

• After a bit, he pulls the ripcord

• Nothing happens

• He tries again

• Still nothing

• He starts to panic, but remembers his back-up chute. He pulls that cord

• Nothing happens

• He frantically begins pulling both cords, but to no avail. Suddenly, he looks down and he can't believe his eyes. Another man is in the air with him, but this guy is going up while he is coming down!

• Just as the other guy passes by, the skydiver -- by this time scared out of his wits - yells, "Hey, do you know anything about skydiving?"

• The other guy yells back, "No! Do you know anything about gas stoves?"