"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."

Luke 23:44-48
₄₄It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, ₄₅for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. ₄₆Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last. ₄₇The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous man." ₄₈When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away.

A husband and wife are putting together a book shelf when the husband for the fourth time lines up the screw holes incorrectly. The wife, frustrated with her husband’s mistakes and seeing him growing more frustrated says, "Let me do it." The husband prideful, retorts, "I got this," and for a fifth time now, the two boards line up incorrectly. Finally conceding, he steps back and watches as his wife lines up the pieces correctly and drills in the screw.

Our relationship with God is often like that. We have fears, worries or wants and we let these things fill up our minds. Jesus comes to us through His Word and tells us to put these hefty emotions on Him instead. To place our trust in God rather than our own skills or lack thereof that cause us stress. But it's hard to put our trust in Jesus when there are telephone calls from bill collectors and Jesus hasn't actually sent an angel to take our phone off of the receiver. It's incredibly difficult to look at an unfortunate medical test result and say it's going to be just fine.

That's because we want the wrong things out of God. Instead of focusing on Heaven, we focus on the now. We focus on worldly things that fill our lives with sorrow rather than look at them at temporary circumstances. If we never get better physically or become millionaires isn't our concern. These troubles are things that occur on the way to Heaven. During our short time on Earth, we deal with them the best we can until we no longer have to worry about these things any more.

No one knows that better than Jesus. His earthly flesh was in pain, it was thirsting, it was being pushed to the point of death. Jesus had nonbelievers tempting Him to use His abilities as true Lord to take care of Himself, to take Himself off the cross, to silence their dissonance. Much in the same way Satan had tempted Him in the past. Jesus however knew that the pain was temporary, He knew the will of His Father, and He knew the eternity laid out before Him. Therefore He gave His soul to God, not Himself.

We know these things, but unlike our perfect Savior, our sinful minds cloud the revelation placed before us. Jesus could have come down off the cross, but as a man, He wanted God's will done. We can live by His example when we too face troubles that seem too big for us. We can look to God and say, "in You I trust. Into Your hands, I commend my spirit."

Jesus is willing to take on our burdens, just as much He was willing to take on our sin. God always answers prayers, sometimes they are miraculously taken care of, sometimes they are taken care of in time, and other times He says, "wait until Heaven." In all situations, we know that our lives are taken care of, no matter what comes our way and that Heaven is waiting for us.