Stewardship
Aww, Is she your baby? She is so cute.
Have my seat, take my place.
On a snowy Wednesday morning, I had a friend’s baby with me as she went to buy a few things and people smiled at me, talked to me, favoured me the whole time the baby was with me. this is because they thought the baby was mine. The reaction was very different when her mum came and I had to give her baby back. That is what God’s favour and goodness does to us. God gives us opportunities, gifts, talents, wealth etc. which causes us to get to certain places, receive certain things, to do particularly great things and be people that only others could only imagine to be. The key is not to have and own them but to have them when we need to. there are times when we feel down because we don’t have certain things that others have and therefore cant get to be and do certain things. That’s ok because we have God who possess all things and will give us everything we need when we need it to be able to get to that place and have those things we need to get. And HE is faithful.
Every time, I was asked if the baby was my first, I had to make reference to her mother. God causes us to have certain things not to draw attention to ourselves but to HIMSELF which will only happen when we acknowledge HIM. Someone would have just lied, like we do with all other things God does for us just so we receive all the glory.
When the baby cried I had to tap gently, walk around, make funny noises and all the while people saw the beauty in that. I didn’t get to sit down and enjoy the attention, that was work especially when I didn’t want to do that. Imagine if I started screaming at the baby, complaining or hitting the baby, everything would have turned really sour. How we react with what God has given us counts a lot. Sometimes we want everything to be absolutely rosy and so with the little trouble we start complaining or acting in ways which does not glorify God and can easily send the wrong message. And the benefits which God wanted us to have will then not be ours.
Lets be good stewards of what God has given us. Its for HIS glory and our own good even if we will have to be stressed along the way.
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