In Luke 19 - the parable of the Ten Minas, it explains how Jesus reacted to each servant with the amount of minas he had given them. Jesus replied - "Well Done" to those who were trustworthy with what God had given them, and the servant who was afraid and did nothing with the mina - Jesus was displeased.
I came away asking myself two questions from this passage - "What are those "resources" God has entrusted me with, and am I being a good steward of them? The obvious answer was money, clothes, my car, other material possessions, my job, etc..., but then I thought about each of the people God has entrusted me with - my friends, my leaders, my family, my roommates, etc...
Then God brought to mind my "ministry" (which is actually everyone's "ministry") - the ministry of reconciling people to God (2 Cor. 5-16-21), and I began to ask God to show me how my "ministry" is with the people that he has entrusted to me. When I take time to stop and think about the things, people, etc... God has given to me, I can only stop and say Thank You, and pray that I would be a great steward of all these things.
So are you being a good steward of what God has given you?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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I am challenged by the passage late in Luke 20 in which Jesus challenges the Pharisees. He does that a lot, but the thing that jumped out to me is Jesus' challenge to basically just stop doing your religious stuff for the sake of getting others to think highly of you. I think I often worry about what others think of me when I'm doing ministry and things for God. Though my motive generally isn't blatant focus on myself, but really is on God. I do however, really think about myself when I'm doing things for God and I need to keep the focus and dependence on him, so that the focus and dependence for doing things for God doesn't come from wanting to make myself look good or to have a "holier than thou" type attitude.
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