Stewardship

We begin this week a series of messages on the subject of stewardship. We plan to cover a variety of subjects through this series over the next two months (February and March).

1 Corinthians 4:1 and 2 states "let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful."

We have all been given one life to steward or manage--one life to present as a living sacrifice to God as holy and acceptable to him.

Being a faithful steward requires a starting point found in v. 1--as servants of Christ. How we manage life and those things that make up life within the parameters and priority of being a servant of Jesus will determine the degree of faithfulness of our stewardship.

To the degree that we manage our families, our time, our minds, our bodies, our emotions, our money, our spiritual gifts as a servant of Jesus Christ is the degree by which our faithfulness is measured.

One day, we will all give account, myself included, of our stewardship because everything we have has been gifted to us by God as managers.

2 Corinthians 5:10 says that "we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad."

There will be a day of accounting for all of us. Does that frighten us, bring joy to our heart, or motivate us toward faithful stewardship of all we are and all we possess?

Yes, but one life to live--how will we live it?

May we live in such a way that we hear "well done, good and faithful servant."

All praise to Jesus!