Okay, uh… so here’s the thing. I read today’s devotional from Oswald Chambers and—man—there’s just this gravitational pull to it. Like, it gently grabs you by the soul and says, ‘Hey… let’s talk trust. Real trust.’ And, uh… I don’t know about you, but I find that hard sometimes. I mean, really hard.

Because we want to trust people. We need community, right? We long to be seen and known and held. And, uh… so we lean on people. We expect things. We even spiritualize it—‘God’s gonna use this person,’ or ‘I can count on them to carry this thing with me,’ and all that.

But Jesus… Jesus didn’t do that.

And, uh… that’s not cynical. It’s not bitter. It’s not suspicious. It's just honest. It's... it’s holy realism. Jesus knew what was in people. He saw the limits. The cracks. The illusions. And still—He loved us wildly. Recklessly. But He never entrusted Himself to us.

He only trusted what God’s grace could do through us.

Like—woah.

That’s... that’s everything. That’s the kind of shift that stops your religious machinery right in its tracks. Jesus didn’t get bitter, didn’t despair about humanity, because His eyes were on what God could do—not on what man could offer.

And then Oswald goes further. He’s like, “Put God’s needs first.” And that sounds weird at first, right? Like—what does God need? But it’s not about God being needy. It’s about God desiring to indwell us. To have a home in us. Bethlehem wasn’t just a city—it’s an ongoing miracle. And your soul… your life… was made to be a Bethlehem.

Like—uh, just think about that.

We’re over here panicking about what we should be doing—mission trips, activism, revival meetings—and meanwhile the Living God is saying, “Hey, could I just be born in you? Could you just let me?”

And—uh—I gotta confess, that wrecks me a little. 'Cause I’ve spent a good chunk of my life trying to do for God what He was simply wanting to be in me.

Chambers says, “A man’s obedience is to what he sees to be a need; Our Lord’s obedience was to the will of His Father.” That… right there. That’s the difference between religious activity and eternal intimacy.

It’s not about fixing the world because we see the need. It’s about letting Father form Christ in us, so that we become the answer He already planted.

And the final hit—uh, just this nuclear truth bomb—is that God’s trust is that He gives us Himself as a babe. Fragile. Dependent. Needing nurture.

He’s not giving us power or programs or positions—He’s giving us Jesus. And He’s saying, “Will you carry Him well? Will you let your life be a Bethlehem?”

And I just… man, I just sit in that.

'Cause that’s not theology. That’s not doctrine. That’s the heartbeat of everything. That’s what makes this whole thing real. Jesus... in me. In you.

So, uh… yeah. Trust in the grace. Don’t despair over people. Don’t rush into doing. Let God be formed in you. And when He is, the world will see Him—not through your efforts, but through your essence.

You were made for this.

You were made to be a Bethlehem.