One of the friends and neighbors down at the Old Savannah City Mission recently commented that God, "could not trust her". The idea of God trusting us or not is meaningless, actually, on a number of levels. What an interesting thought, though. God absolutely can't trust me to run my own life. I think drug addicts and alcoholics understand this statement better than most other people. I made a gigantic mess of the life that God had given me, and it never got any better until I gave it all back to God. It's as though I recieved a fine watch as a gift from my father, who is a watchmaker, then I spent 10 years smashing it to pieces with a hammer. Eventually, when I came to my senses and realized what I'd done to my father's precious gift, I realized that the only one who could fix it is the one who made it...my father. I had to take it back to him. Most of us are profoundly ashamed by the time we get to this point. We know what we've done...God's created us to feel the distance we place between ourselves and Him. After a while we learn this truth, though it is a great mystery at the same time: to gain our lives as God intends them to be, we must give them back to Him. Real freedom is found only in voluntary surrender. Does God trust you? He doesn't have to. He trusts in Himself. He is the God who makes covenant, then swears by himself (Gen 15, 22:15), so that when we break our end of the deal, which we always do, He pays the price for us.