When you talk about any aspect of Christianity, it always, at some point, comes back to the issue of trust. Christians are to trust God, not only for the big things in life, like our eternal destiny, but also for the everyday things, including money. God is more trustworthy than any bank, preferred stock, Social Security or family trust. He’s more trustworthy than the currency or the government of the United States of America. God is absolutely dependable and we can have complete trust in him.

But trusting God also involves responsibility on our part. Trust is counting on God to help us show up every day for a difficult job. It’s making do with less than the best sometimes, and it’s not worrying about things that might someday go wrong. For the Christian, trust is a way of life.