Today I will:
“No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!” Luke 6:13 (ISV)
In his book The Purpose-Driven Life, Pastor Rick Warren says, "Money is both a test and a trust. God uses finances to teach us to trust Him . . . God watches how we use money to test how trustworthy we are." When money goes from a test and trust to lord of our lives, determining how and where we spend our time, then something is seriously out of place. If we are ever going to get to a place where money doesn't control our lives and dictate our actions, then we are going to have to get to a place where we control money and dictate what it will do.
The fact is that money is a force in our world that makes things happen, and those things are generally very negative unless good people determine what it does. Many people believe that we are stewards of what God has given us, but then they look only to what is in their immediate influence as the responsibility of that stewardship. The Bible tells us that we are stewards of all that is on the earth. Is it really responsible stewardship to allow the corrupt and selfish to control most of the earth's resources?
How we work in our businesses and manage the wealth of our companies as well as how we manage our personal finances determines the faithfulness of our stewardship. We need to be mindful each day about how we will answer when we are called to give account before Jesus on that final day. Will you be among the good and faithful stewards God has left to be responsible for His resources on the earth?