"He is able to keep my deposit. . . . The good deposit, keep."


BIBLE READING: 2 Timothy 1

There is a double deposit here, and the comparison becomes clear and marked in the Greek.  When we entrust our most precious treasure into the care of Jesus, He turns to honor us by entrusting his own treasure to our care.  Oh that we might be as eager to keep what He entrusts to us as He is with what we have given over to Him, so that He would be able to say of us, "I know them in whom I have trusted, and am persuaded that they will never fail to do whatever needs to be done for my honor and glory."
What is the true policy of life?  How can I best spend the few years I have to the best advantage?  What is there beyond?  Such questions come to all earnest souls, and greatly trouble them, until they entrust the keeping of their souls and the direction of their lives into the hands of the Savior.  We feel sure that He has the words of eternal life and that all power is given to Him in heaven and earth.  At first there is something of a venture.  We trust Him.  Next, there is knowledge that comes from experience.  We know Him.  Lastly, there is strong confidence.  We are persuaded that He is able.
What is the deposit of Christ with us?  To every believer, Jesus hands the custody of His honor, His gospel, His Father's glory, the ordinances He bequeathed to the Church.  As Ezra charged the priests to safely bear the sacred vessels on the march through the desert, so our Captain charges us.  Throughout the whole Bible rings the injunction, "Be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord." (Isaiah 52:11)

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