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Part 2: LIFE ON EARTH IS A TRUST
God has entrusted to our care and management:
Our time, energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships and resources.
They are gifts. We are stewards, or managers of whatever God gives us.
God is the owner of everything & everyone on earth.
We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth – God just loans it to us while we’re here.
When God created Adam & Eve, He entrusted the care of His creation to them & appointed them as trustees of His property.
“God blessed them and said to them: “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground: - Genesis 1:28.
Part of our purpose today is to manage and take care of God’s creations on earth. This role has never been rescinded.
Everything we enjoy is to be treated as a trust that God has placed in our hands.
“What do you have that you did not receive?
And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
(as if you have accomplished something on your own). – 1 Corinthians 4:7

“The world and all that is in it belong to the Lord; the earth and all who live on it are His” – Psalm 24:1.

Our human nature says, “If I don’t own it, I don’t have to take care of it”. But God expects us to live by a higher standard: Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I possibly can.
“Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful” – 1 Corinthians 4:2.

In the story of the talents, a businessman entrusts his wealth to the care of his servants while he’s away. When he returns, he evaluates each servant’s responsibility and rewards them accordingly.
At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.
That means, EVERYTHING you do, even simple daily chores, has eternal implications.
Money, as most people fail to realize, is both a test & a trust from God.
He uses finances to teach us to trust Him.
He watches how we use money to test how trustworthy we are. Money can be the greatest test of all.
“So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches” (of heaven). – Luke 16:11.
God says there’s a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life!
Is the way you manage your money preventing God from doing more in your life?
Can God trust you with spiritual riches?
Jesus said, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded;
And from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked”
-Luke 12:48.
Life is a test, and a trust. The more God gives you, the more responsible He expects you to be.