trust you to take care of my needs."

Lu 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters.  Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money.

God has promised to take care of those who trust Him, have faith in Him, just like He takes care of everything else.  God created this universe, He sustains every atom of this universe, and He sent His only Son to die for all men.

Col. 1: 16-20 For by him all things were created - things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the first born from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.  For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Since God has done it all and continues to do it all, we ought to place all our trust in Him.  He takes care of His creation, why can't we trust Him to take care of His creatures?

Luke 12:22-31 Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.  Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them.  And how much more valuable you are than birds!  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Since you cannot do this very little thing, Why do you worry about the rest?  "Consider how the lilies grow.  They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, 0 you of little faith!  And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink,- do not worry about it.  For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them.  But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

Don't be double minded.  A double minded person is unstable in all his ways.

James 1:5-8 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.  But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord,- he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

The Lord wants our complete trust in Him.  We need to choose to trust in the Lord fully.  Choosing to have one foot in the world and one foot in Christ will not work either.  Let me give you some examples of the kind of trust the Lord wants us to have.

Two Rowboats

Imagine that you are out in the middle of a lake and there are two rowboats and you are standing with one foot in each boat.  One boat, however, is filled with holes and is sinking fast.  It is obvious that unless you do something you will soon be in the lake.  The boat with the holes represents ourselves with all of the leaks caused by sin.  The boat without holes represents Christ.  It should be obvious that with one foot in each boat we shall end up in the same place that we would have ended up in we had had both feet in the boat marked "self." The only safe place to be is to have both feet firmly planted in the boat marked Christ.