“More trust in the Lord,” (“More Holiness Give Me”, Phillip Paul Bliss). Trust, by its very nature, is a two way street. Therefore, if we want to develop more trust in the Lord, one of the best things that we can do is to recognize the level of trust that the Lord has placed in us. Like in the Parable of the Talents, the Lord has entrusted each of us with a certain number of talents. Some of us may have been given one, or two, or five. Some people seem to have been given dozens and dozens of them. The exact number is not important, nor should it matter how many or how few we have been given compared to anyone else. What is important is that whatever number of talents he has given to each of us, the Lord trusts us at least that much. Actually, he trusts us at least double that much because He wants us to go out and multiply our talents. We could be like the wicked and slothful servant who was too afraid of disappointing his master and so convinced that the trust given to him that his single talent represented was entirely misplaced, that he hid his talent rather than run the risk of failure. He did not trust his master because he did not accept the trust that his master had placed in him. Or, we could be like the good and faithful servants and accept the talents we have been given and especially the trust that they represent and we can go out and make the best of things and trust that, whatever setbacks or failures that we encounter along the way, it will all work out in the end. If God has given us a talent, then He has also given us the capacity to increase and magnify and multiply that talent. As we go forth with faith and make mistakes and repent and try again and eventually manage to double the talents that we have been given, how much will our trust grow in the Lord? As we begin to see that the Lord is not an idiot or a fool for placing His trust in us, but with His grace and after all we can do together we actually succeed in living up to His vision for us, then when He gives us more and more talents and more and more trust, we in turn trust Him more and more and are willing to do all things that He asks of us, because we have proof that when we have done so in the past, everything turned out just as He promised it would.
