TUESDAY, January 25, 2011
Be a Good Steward
“For the LORD your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.”
Deuteronomy 15:6
This is interesting. They will lend, but they will not have to borrow. Again, we see the importance of being a good steward of God’s money. Imagine! Today, the people who are in debt are in the church and outside of the church. Everything is collapsing because of greed and bad stewardship of what God has given to us as a nation, as a country, as a world.
Here God says, “If you obey what I say to you, if you take my instructions, if you do exactly what I say, you are going to be blessed, and others will be blessed too.” There will be no problem. Why? Because of one word — obedience.
God made the promise. They would not be ruled by anyone. Then we go to Deuteronomy 28, 29 and 30. He gives blessings in 14 verses, and then there are two and a half chapters of curses. He tells them, “You will be the head as long as you obey, but the day you disobey me and become like the other nations of the world, I will make you the tail and make them the head.”
Look at the United States. We used to be independent with one of the strongest economies, but no longer. As Christians, we have a responsibility to vote as Christians. Part of our stewardship is being responsible Christians in selecting godly representation.
Stewardship is what a man does
after he says, “I believe.”
-W. H. Greaves-
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