{"id":11212,"date":"2019-10-22T05:37:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2019-10-22T05:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:37:35","slug":"my-safety-deposit-box-is-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11212","title":{"rendered":"My Safety Deposit Box is Secure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For years, my husband and I had many important documents in a safety deposit box at our bank. Ours held only documents, but my dear friend had some very precious, rare, expensive jewelry in hers. I wondered “Why have those items if they can’t be worn or used?” But to both of us, we didn’t want to risk our items being stolen, broken, or burned up, so we took them to the bank and entrusted it all to the protection of a safety deposit box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key word is ENTRUSTED. We entrust our home’s protection to a security system. We entrust the care of our children to a day care or school system. Even more than a bank lock box, our home’s security system or our children in someone else\u2019s care, whatever we entrust to God, we can be assured that He is going to take care of it. We can count on it. He has a perfect track record. Other people and systems may not have a consistent track record of taking care of things for us. But whatever we entrust to God, we can be assured \u201cIt\u2019s done and done!\u201d A long time ago when we were young, inexperienced and green in just about every area of life, we entrusted all we had to God \u2013 and that included what concerned us \u2013 from the huge pressures to the daily details of making ends meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe today there are worries, concerns, family, children, husband, wife, and every situation that is on our minds today that need to be entrusted to God. All of it \u2013 from the least to the greatest \u2013 needs to be entrusted to the safety deposit box of God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worry is, in a way, like atheism. We act like spiritual orphans who don\u2019t have a Father in Heaven Who loves us and Who can be trusted. Worry is unbelief. It\u2019s saying we don\u2019t believe the thousands of promises God made in His Word. The most difficult time for us to put our “stuff” in God\u2019s safety deposit box is when we\u2019re in pain. When we are suffering, we don\u2019t want to trust even God. We want to pull it back and hold it to ourselves. St. Paul knew this, but he also knew that when we\u2019re in pain, that\u2019s when we need to trust God the most: \u201cI am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that He is able to guard what I have ENTRUSTED to Him until the day of His return.\u201d (2 Timothy 1:12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe, like me, you need to take all those concerns and worries today \u2013 let them go, give them \u2013 ENTRUST them to God\u2019s safety deposit box. That’s when we have been convinced God is alive and well and He can be TRUSTED to work ALL THINGS for our good in due season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, my husband and I had many important documents in a safety deposit box at our bank. Ours held only documents, but my dear friend had some very precious, rare, expensive jewelry in hers. I wondered “Why have those items if they can’t be worn or used?” But to both of us, we didn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15237,15239,15238],"tags":[15249,15248,15242,1210,15244,15243,756,7528,15245,1084,1407,552,15241,14981,15246,15247,15240,15250,7534],"class_list":["post-11212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrusted","category-lock-box","category-safety-deposit-box","tag-2-timothy-112","tag-atheism","tag-bank","tag-blog","tag-broken","tag-burned","tag-children","tag-concerns","tag-entrusted","tag-family","tag-guard","tag-protection","tag-safety-deposit-box","tag-secure","tag-security-system","tag-spiritual-orphans","tag-stolen","tag-trusted","tag-worries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11215,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions\/11215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}