It is an awesome and terrible thought that the Lord would entrust anything to us. The One who knows our inadequacies and outright failings better than anyone else, entrusts His work to the hands of those who have trusted Him. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 reads: "O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called 'knowledge'-which some have professed and thus gone astray concerning the faith. Grace be with you."
So, what is it that has been entrusted to us? It is nothing less than the ministry of the Gospel. His Word has been committed to us to carry to the world through the leading and in the power of His Holy Spirit. In these last days, it is especially important that we carry the truth to the world. Like Abraham interceding for Sodom and Gomorrah, we have to "regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation" (2 Peter 3:15) for those who have not yet heard or trusted in the Word of God.
How can we possibly carry out such a commission without failing and faltering? As the truth falls farther and farther out of favor with the world that we live in, and so many around us fall, compromise and even turn away, how can we hope to stand? In 2 Timothy 2:12, Paul wrote about how he suffered because of His unwillingness to compromise the ministry that had been entrusted to him. He said: "For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; 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." You see, the ability to carry out what has been entrusted to us is to entrust our everything to the Lord. We once trusted Him to save our lives from the penalty of our sin. We can still trust Him to complete the work that He began in us.