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I Trust You with My Life
By Jim McGuiggan

In the darkest night of the world, a young dying man called out into the darkness and said: “Father, I trust you with my life.” (“Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit” - Luke 23:46).

I like everything about his last words and I find help in them during a painful time in my own little life, just as millions of others have done and now do in theirs.

If there is a God and if there is anyone who truly knew him—knew him in a more than superficial way, knew him in the depths—it was this Jesus. Knowing him as he did beyond all others in human history it is a great relief and assurance to hear him say, “Father!”  I’m aware that it’s an overstatement but I’m blessed by someone’s summary of the work of Jesus when he said: “Jesus came to teach us the word ‘Father’.” I’m aware too that good fathers are to be respected and obeyed but there’s something rich about the truth that the word “Father” was on his dying lips and it describes the God who is the Almighty Sovereign.

But since there are so many fathers who have been nothing more than sperm-donors and who wanted to be nothing other than that, who, in fact, have been cowards and abusers and users—since that’s true the word “father” generates pain for a great host. That’s why it’s profoundly assuring to hear Jesus say, “Father, I trust you with my life.”

Because he also said, “You will not leave me in Death’s hands and will not permit corruption to lord it over me” (cf. Acts 2:25-28) we know this “Father” was no helpless friend. The young man’s trust was shot through with confidence and joy-filled hope.

Jesus made his Father our Father and by him we’re given the grace to cry out in our own dark night, “Father, I trust you with my life and with the lives of our loved ones who went to their deaths saying, “Father, I trust you with my life.”