Entrust // November

The word “entrust” comes up twice in 1 Peter in the ESV, and I’ve been thinking on it often: “Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good” (1 Peter 4:19).

The word in Greek can mean to “set before,” “deposit,” or “commit.” I like to visualize what it would look like to really place our souls before God and deposit them in His charge. Instead of just “trusting” God in the mental sense of the word, what does it look like to be entrusted to Him?

About the poem

I sometimes feel forgotten by God. Like the dreams and hopes I had for my life don’t matter and are long buried and gone. But even the dreams I let die have a way of finding their way back to me, just like all the junk in the drawers of my kitchen. Do you have a drawer like that? Of found objects?

I think God does. I think He keeps all our discarded hopes and dreams and surfaces them back up at the proper time, just like seeds waiting to sprout. 

About the art

I had a different image in my mind of what I wanted to create, but I couldn’t get it to come out right on paper. I like the color of this one though.

One month left to go

Truthfully, I won’t be sorry to see this year turn over. It’s been a lot of releasing and unearthing—neither are fun. This project hasn’t quite turned out how I thought it would, but I’ll be glad when December 1st hits, and I can look back on all I created this year in its fullness. 

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