Stewardship

APAD DAY 9

by Daniel Owino Ogweno
02/24/17
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Stewardship Over Information

 When God spoke to our forefathers, He equally spoke to us; when He speaks to us, He is as well speaking to our children and the generations to come. Our forefathers had the responsibility of telling our fathers what God did to them or told them; our fathers also had the responsibility of passing to us what our forefathers told them. We equally have the responsibility of passing to our children what our fathers told us or what God has told us directly. Our children will also pass the information to their children. Like a button in a relay race, the information must continue until the end of life on earth.

Sadly, what happens sometimes is that there are some participants of the race of life who do poor work in passing the button. They either drop the button along the way or they delivered it weakly when the competitor has gained on us or has put us out of the race. To struggle and gather things up takes a lot more strength and determination. In athletics we usually see athletes that just giving up the race altogether.

If there be something spectacular that God did to our forefathers, He equally did it unto us—we need to know about it. If there is something special He is doing to us, He is equally doing it to the generations that will come after us—they need to hear about it. This is why the preservation of what God has done and spoken to us is important. The things of God are preserved not by hiding them as top secrets but by continuously passing them over to the succeeding generations.

When God delivered the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, He told them not to forget what they had seen. They were to write them in their hearts and teach them to their children.

“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons.” —Deuteronomy 4:9.

 If we keep something in our heart as a secret and refuse to pass it along, it will perish with us when we bow out of this life.

 When something is repeated over and over again, it shows that it is important and must not be forgotten.

 “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up” —Deuteronomy 6:6-7.

 When God delivered the Children of Israel from Egypt, it was a big matter that became a historical reference point. We know that everyone of them except Joshua and Caleb died in the wilderness (Num. 14:30, Josh. 5:6). Nevertheless, whenever God was addressing the descendants of those who were delivered from Egypt, He addresses them by reminding them: “I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage” (Judges 6:8).