Trust

To trust is to surrender. Trust cannot be formed, cannot grow, cannot be stewarded, unless the person engaged in trusting fully understands, accepts, and practices the surrender of the thing or matter which they are entrusting to another. To trust is to surrender care of someone, or something, to another person. Without this surrender, the concept of “trust” is vapid and has no meaning. And make no mistake – there is no such thing as “partial surrender.” There can be partial responsibility, or joint custody, or team management – but there is no sharing or partiality in surrender. Like being pregnant, surrender is or isn’t – there is no “partly” about it.

And this, for followers of Jesus, is what is meant by the word “faith.”