Stewardship is . . . doing Godly deeds.

Almost every Sunday morning, we confess our sins to our most merciful God. We confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We confess that we have sinned against Him, as well as against our neighbor, in thought, word, and deed.

When we hear the word stewardship, it is often used with the words, time, talents, and treasures, the three “T’s” as they are called. But our stewardship is not merely the three “T’s,” our stewardship is our whole life, time, talents, treasure, body, mind, personality, worship, prayer, witnessing, all that makes us who we are, me.

Our culture seems to teach us that we can do whatever we want to do, as long as it does not hurt anyone else. My freedom to extend my fist stops at where your nose begins. Well, just like in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, so too in our spiritual life. Every one of our actions, what we do, whether we think it affects someone else or not, does have an equal and opposite reaction, on someone else. There is not such thing as my doing something that will affect no one but myself.

God has given us life and He has given us a brain to use to take care of this life. He gives us everything we need in and for this life. He gives us the abilities we need, the family and friends we need, all that we need to do what He would have us to do. And what He would have us to do is to live our lives to the praise and glory of His Holy Name.

By ourselves we are unable to accomplish what God would have us to do, but He does not expect us to do it alone. He moves in us to do the good works He has for us to do and then we do them to the praise and glory of His Holy Name. To God be the glory!

9 of 52 © Rev. Ronald A. Bogs