PPF: Stewardship

"Prepare a full account of your stewardship..."

Luke 16:2

When it comes to talents,

I think I can face God and say,

"Lord, every day I use what you have given me.

I hope it glorifies you!"

But when it comes to other things-

can I say that with my money,

my time, my resources,

I treat all these as if it belongs to Him?

In Africa, the farmers have a problem with the

Rhesus monkey stealing their harvest.

So they ingeniously carve a hole into a coconut,

put a banana into it or some food the monkey will like

and chain it to a coconut tree.

The monkey gets attracted to the food

and puts its hand into the coconut.

But the monkey cannot get his hand out

when it is grasping the banana!

So it struggles and the chains rattle,

and the farmer goes and captures it.

Sometimes we are like that with money!

Tightfisted. We don't let go!

All the monkey has to do to save its life

is to let go!

Sometimes we too, hold on to things

that destroy us-

when we keep buying things we don't really need,

getting into debt,

and limiting our options for the present

and for our future.

One day God will ask us what we did

with our time, our talents, our gifts,

our resources, our money.

"Where your treasure is, there your heart is also."

Matthew 6:21

I'm going to take a look at my checkbook

and my credit card statement

to see where my heart is!!!

The woman in this story in Luke chapter 15

is not ecstatic because she found a mere coin-

the coin represents a whole day's wages!

So of course, she moved her house upside down

to find it, and when she did,

she told all her neighbors how happy she was!

So it is in heaven- when someone who is lost

has found his way back to God!

Perhaps we are not far from God

in the way we live our life.

But sometimes our wallets are the last

to be saved!

Perhaps its time to take a step

to giving more to what God

finds valuable and not to 

the pursuits of this world! 

Indeed it is a privilege to

join Him in His work!

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