Skill: Stewardship READ MATTHEW 25:14-30. Consider for a moment that everyone on earth has the same amount of time in every day. President or paper boy, housewife or executive, farmer or financier--they all have exactly twenty-four hours in each day. What differentiates people isnt the amount of time available to them but the manner in which they exercise their gifts and talents within the available time. Thats what stewardship is about: faithfully developing and using our gifts, talents and resources within the amount of time God has allotted to us. Within every stewardship relationship there are two parties involved: the master who hands out the resources and will one day ask for an accounting; and the steward who is entrusted with the resources and must eventually answer for how they were invested. When Jesus taught about his second coming, he drove home one important lesson: Only faithful stewards will be prepared for his return. The parable he used to make this point involved three servants who each received a sum of money from his master before that master departed on a long journey. Upon his return the master discovered that two of the servants had invested the money and that one had buried it. When the servant who had buried the money began offering excuses, the master refused to accept them. Instead, he rebuked the lazy servant and punished him severely. Meanwhile, the faithful servants enjoyed the rewards they had received for their diligent labor. Leaders are stewards. They manage multiple resources because they direct others in using their own resources. Reread Matthew 25:14-30 and consider ways of investing the multiple resources God has placed under your trust.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:24:07 +0000
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