Consider trust. It seems to take years to build trust but a day or two can take it down like a house of cards in a hurricane. This is a problem for us humans who are built with a need to trust someone in our world. We pick and choose, often poorly, people in which to place our treasure of trust. Eventually something or someone will invade our fortress of security and it explodes, implodes, or just plain disolves as if it were never there. Why is it so easy to isolate ourselves? Because we have found way to many people who have held too lightly with the trust that you have placed in them. What is it like to be on the other side though? To have many people place a trust in you and to carry that weight with arms too weak to hold it all? I would suggest that man was never meant to carry such a load, neither was he meant to place such a load upon another. What I mean is that there is no way that any man (or woman) will never ever ever ever let you down. So prepare for it without being paranoid by the inevitability of it. God has done this with the most immense treasure of all. The Gospel of the Kingdom. With His divine foreknowledge of the inevitable conclusion, He has still chosen to hand us His trust. With all the force of a hurricane, we tend to blow it apart. We fail family, church, work, ministry, and even God. GRACE! GRACE! GRACE! Grace to you who live in the shadow of the mountain of failure that you have built. Grace to you who have isolated yourselves from those who you once trusted. Grace to you who have destroyed the trust that many once placed in you. Grace to you who search with futility for fruit that has sprouted from seeds you planted in hard soil. Grace to you who have been misunderstood by those who claim to love you most. Grace to you who have forsaken the call for the witness that you lost in a moment of weakness. Grace to you all. God still trusts in you.