Entrusted

"On the contrary, we speak as ones approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.  We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts." (I Thess 2:4)

I loved what Rabbi Gellman wrote in his "The God Squad" article this past Saturday in response to a parishoner's question about her or his priest.  When Rabbi Gellman interviewed at the synagogue he served for 33 years, he told them:  "There will not be one day when I think I work for you.  Every day, I will be working for God.  There are two reasons I'm telling you this.  The first is that it is true, and the second is that if I worked for you, I'd have to do what you want, but if I work for God, I can do what you need."

That's a really good paraphrase of what Paul is saying above.  It's something I have also aspired to, sometimes with greater or lesser degrees of success - because the Gospel entrusted to me, to each of us, is from God, and it is our task, always and everywhere to be as faithful to God as we can be.