Tuesday Thought -- July 12, 2011

Good Morning Friends,

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.  So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?  And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own?  No servant can serve two masters.  Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and Money."  (Luke 16:10-13)

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.  The trouble is that too many people allow money to be their master.  They make decisions based upon how it will affect their money.  Money becomes more important to some people than anything else -- more important than doing God's will, more important than people, even more important than God.

God calls us to have the right perspective on our money, to consider it a servant, a tool to be used to accomplish what God wants to accomplish with it.  Money is a "very little" thing, it has no importance in the eternal scheme of things.  It is given to us as a test of how we will manage the more important things that will come later, the "true riches" of eternity.

We are to consider the money we have as someone else's property.  It belongs to the Lord and He has only entrusted its care to us.  When we are caring for someone else's property we are to do with it what they want, not what we want.

So the questions are --

Is your money your master or your servant?

Are you passing the test with your money, showing yourself faithful in how you use it?

Are you using the money entrusted to you in the way its Owner desires, or do you consider it your own?

His, by Grace,

Steve