Financial Discipleship - the Bible on Our PartSample

God, the Master, is the owner of everything, the controller of all events and our provider. Our responsibility is to be a steward. The word for steward can be translated into two different words: manager and supervisor. In Scripture the position of a steward is one of great responsibility. He or she is the supreme authority under the master and has full responsibility for all the master’s possessions and household affairs.

As we examine Scripture we see that God, as Master, has given us the authority to be stewards. “You [God] have put him [people] in charge of everything you made; everything is put under his authority” (Psalm 8:6, TLB).

One’s only responsibility is to be faithful. “Moreover it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful” (1 Corinthians 4:2). Before we can be faithful, we must know what we are required to do. Just as the purchaser of an automobile studies the manufacturer’s manual to learn how to properly operate the car, we need to examine the Creator’s handbook, the Bible, to find out how He wants us to handle His possessions.

Several elements of faithfulness are important to understand: Being faithful with all our resources, faithful regardless of how much we have, faithfulness in little things, faithfulness with another’s possessions, knowing faithfulness builds character and faithfulness leads to commitment.

(excerpt taken from Your Money Counts by Howard Dayton, 2020)