In God We Trust

A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another’s benefit. When someone places their property into a trust, they transfer ownership of that property to the trustee, but the trustee has a fiduciary duty to ensure that any actions they take with regards to that property are done for the good of the beneficiary. If we are struggling with the concept of surrendering our will to the Lord, or placing our trust in Him, then thinking of this process in terms of a legal trust might help us. Each of us has our own agency that not even God Himself will take from us. He does ask, however, that we voluntarily give Him our agency. We can choose to place our agency into a trust, in which our Heavenly Father, as the trustee, promises to keep and use our agency solely for our own benefit. If you think about some of the reasons for which trusts are set up in our day, for example, when a young person has received a large inheritance and is perhaps too immature or inexperienced to use their funds wisely, then it totally makes sense for us to place our agency in a trust with our Heavenly Father. We often make bad decisions, and choose things that will harm us in the short or long term. We are like a young heir or heiress with too much money to know what to do with, and lacking the foresight to budget or plan for the future. But with our agency in a trust, we can act only as our Heavenly Father directs, and we can trust that He will direct us in a way that is most beneficial to us. I hope that all of us can have the courage and the humility to place in God our trust.