For our own sake He urges us not to trust in our own knowledge, strength, relationships, or accomplishments. Our confidence is to be in Him alone. Yet there is another side of the coin. Even more important is what God Himself entrusts to us. He gives students to teachers, children to parents, workers to employers, and friends to friends.
Stewardship is the responsibility of caring for that which belongs to another.
Yet there is more that God gives us. He also entrusts His people with pain and disappointment. In difficult times our Lord places in our care the kind of loss that gives us another way to show His supernatural presence in our lives. He knows our inclinations. He knows that left to ourselves we would be unprofitable servants.