A Trust

“The secret of great living” says Charles Clayton Morrison, “is the consciousness that I am being trusted…therefore I must be trustworthy.”

These words suggest that each of us has been given a trust by our friends and our associates, and we must live up to it. But, it also suggests that God has given to every one of us treasures of heart, and health, and wealth, and talent. When we wise up to the fact that everything we have and own, and are, has been given to us, that we own nothing and that we owe everything, then we have found the secret of great living.

I am a steward of the Eternal God. I hold all that I have on God’s behalf. I am simply a care-taker of it, dispensing it on the Lord’s behalf.

This is what the Christian means when he or she sings, “All to Jesus, I surrender. I surrender all.” We are God’s body, God’s mouth-piece. God’s hands and feet, God’s accountant. We owe God everything. We give God a portion of what has been given to us, to continue the work while we are alive. We sing for the Lord, we work for the Lord, we witness for God, we give through the Lord’s Church. Someday, we are to return all that we have in that final Trust Account.

This is great living! To waste our substance in riotous living, and selfish pursuit, is to throw it down a rat hole. To invest our time, our talent, and our tithes in Kingdom enterprises, is the only answer to inflation. It is ours forever, with “interest” from the Master-Holder.

I am being trusted, therefore, I must be trustworthy. My future is at stake!