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I Trust in God!

Scripture: Luke 23:44–46 “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.”

Jesus knew that he was sent down from heaven to the Earth on a mission to save the world that God had become despised with because of the sinful nature of man, but as the scripture tells us John 3:16–17 ““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

When Jesus called out “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” and then died (Luke 23:46), he was performing an act of profound trust while simultaneously accomplishing the redemptive work of the cross. 

The Greek word Jesus used for “commit” is paratithemi, meaning “to entrust” or “to deposit,” as you might make a deposit at a bank[1]. he was entrusting to God all that he had embodied as a human being

This act reveals something essential about Jesus’s character. No one took his life from him; he laid it down of his own accord and possessed authority both to lay it down and to take it up again (John 10:17–18). Even in death, Jesus maintained control.

For believers, this prayer models what commitment to God looks like. Committing your spirit—the wholeness of your life—into God’s hands is something to do every day, not just at the end, and Jesus certainly did this every day of his life on earth[1].