"It is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy. "
1 Corinthians 4:2
IT'S ALL HIS
Read It: Luke 16:10-12
When was the last time you took the premium due notice on your life insurance policy and tossed it, figuring you'd let this one ride and catch the next one? Never, right? Why? Because if you're unfaithful in paying the premium, you know they are going to cancel your policy. So you're faithful to pay. That's all God wants: your faithfulness. He's saying, "If you can't do anything for Me with the little bit of unrighteous mammon I entrust to you, if I can't trust you with that junk that's going to burn up someday, how can I trust you with the real stuff-My heavenly riches?" How many of us parents would reward our kids for squandering a ten-dollar dollar allowance by upping it to twenty dollars? See, what matters to God is how you are doing with what He's entrusted to you, not how you might do if things were different. On Monday we talked about the key element of stewardship: The steward ard doesn't own anything. He's the manager of someone else's property. The Bible teaches that everything we have, we hold as God's stewards. That beautiful house you cherish? In God's mind, that's His house on loan to you. How do I know it's on loan? Because someday you're going to leave it. That's the test of whether you really own something or not. If you have to give it up, you don't really own it. So everything we have is on loan from God.
For many people, that should not be a hard principle to understand since they are so deeply in debt that the paycheck already belongs to someone else anyway. How complete is God's ownership? We don't even own ourselves (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). We have been bought with a price, the blood of Christ, and we are His. Therefore, the issue in stewardship is not that 10 percent of what you have goes to God. He owns 100 percent of what you have, and He's just as concerned about how you use the other 90 percent as He is about the part you give back to Him. Think About It If it all belongs to God, then He's responsible to meet my needs if I'm a faithful steward of what He entrusts to me.
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