Kingdom financial principles: It is required of stewards to be faithful

One major challenge of most developing countries is faithfulness in stewardship. Political leaders crave power not because they love the country or the people but because they want to enrich themselves. Channeling public funds into individual pockets has been so rampant that it is actually seen as the norm for many people. These self-serving politicians are not good stewards of the resources that have been entrusted to them. This and many others have led to widespread poverty in developing countries. Without faithful stewards, the world will continue to go on a downhill path with the strong and influential becoming richer and the weak and vulnerable becoming poorer. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.(I Corinthians 4:2 NKJV) God has made all humanity as stewards of everything He has created and this includes the wealth of the world. “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26). Unfortunately, humanity has not been so kind to the world and the systems God put in place. We have destroyed creation and caused some created things to be endangered while others are extinct. As stewards of God’s resources, we are required to be faithful in keeping, maintaining and ensuring a sustainable growth of everything entrusted to us. We have stewardship over the financial resources God had blessed us with. The likelihood of admitting that “it is my money, I worked hard for it” can cause us to lose God’s bigger picture.  For the last part of our series on kingdom financial principles, we shall consider stewardship of the wealth, money and resources God has given to us. Stewards manage or look after another person’s property or resources. We will consider verses that teach, admonish or even direct good stewardship. One thing we should first understand is that God is the source of everything on earth. He has entrusted portions of these into our hands and we have the mandate of taking good care of them. Let us spur ourselves into good stewardship practices based on the word of God. You might not be the boss of your work, but you are a steward. Take due diligence to do what is assigned to you. It glorifies God.

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