stewardship

Stewardship
No one is going to read this blog. Ha ha. The word stewardship makes us nervous. It shouldn’t. The concept of stewardship is simple- who we are and what we have is not ours to be used at our disposal, our life and our stuff are gifts from God - we just get to take care of them, temporarily.
This is precisely why we don’t like the idea of stewardship. We want our stuff to be ours and we want our life to be in our control. Whether we like it or not, it isn’t our stuff and life is in God’s hands, not ours.
I go on a trip with my wife and leave the house under the care of my children. They are stewards. They can take care of the house and do the right things or they can call all of their friends and have a big wild party. It happens.
I give my child something to help them out. They can use it for the purpose intended or they can sell the thing and take the money to use for some other purpose that I did not want to fund.
On and on the illustrations go. Ask yourself some questions about you and being a steward.

1. Do you understand that every thing that you have is on loan from our Father?
2. Do you volunteer or give your time in some way that helps others?
3. Do you give your gifts and talents to benefit others?
4. Do you give a portion of God’s money back to his work?
5. Do you wake up every day, aware of, and pleased that this day is a gift to you?
To the extent that we understand that we are stewards, we find joy and purpose in this life. To the extent that we fight the idea, we spend our days clinging to that which is not ours and cannot be owned.
Set yourself free from being controlled by stuff. Put your heart, your time, your money, and talents in the hands of our Father. That is where they belong.
It’s a beautiful day in God’s world, be sure to see the good.