Tag: worldly wealth

I saw a couple of new things today as I read this passage, but I’ll focus on one today.

Jesus said,

Whoever is faithful in very little, is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?

And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own? (Luke 16:10-12)

Think about those words a bit. What does Jesus call worldly wealth?

He calls it “a very small thing.”

He also says, “It belongs to someone else.”

And he says if you are unfaithful with a very small thing that actually belongs to someone else (in reality, we’re all simply managing God’s money), how can God entrust you with greater things?

Hopefully, all of us want God to use us. God himself wants to work through us to touch others.

But if we are unfaithful in something so small as money, treating it like our own, when it’s really God’s, how can God trust us with Kingdom responsibilities?

I’m not just talking about tithing. I’m talking about how we use our money in general. Are we using it wisely, remembering that it really belongs to God?

Honestly, that’s something I need to think about too. So let’s all search our hearts before God and hear what he’d have us do.