Stewardship and Trials

September 26, 2007 FB

I posted this in the Bible Study group but thought it would be a help to some of my friends who are going though hard times right now:

I have noticed that God gives Christians stewardships in their own lives. Usually the responsibilities are money, health, and relationships. He tests us in them and when things get hard we have the choice to rely on God and let him work things out, or try to do it on our own and make a mistake.

I've seen it in my own life and the lives of Christians all the time. Somehow when things get really bad and you only have God left to turn to He makes it all get better when you do. You may have to give something up that you've had forever, or ask someone for money, or do the unthinkable and admit you're wrong. But when we run to God He gives us something better than what we had before. It's funny how it's always so painful to go through the trials without being able to see what's ahead, but if we rely solely on God we'll be happier in the end.

In the parable of the minas in Luke 19 the good servants who do what the master wants are well blessed, but the servant who doesn't obey the master loses even what he has. We need to obey what God has already shown us to do even more so during hard times and He will likely bless us greatly after a trial.

Psalm 18; James 1:2-4; I Peter 1:7-8; II Cor. 1:3-7; Matthew 11:28Nehemiah Ryan © 2007 FB



ORIGINAL NOTE COMMENTS
Katie Love
Sometimes I think Christians now a days are led astray from what they believe is following God by the misleading conceptions of our culture and what the bible says is the true way to follow God. Trying to take hard times as a bad thing, rather than a God given test. Thinking that easy is best, because our flesh is at peace when we're content. Forgetting that God is not concerned with our comfort but in his plan in conforming into christlikeness. God is totally commited to bringing out the worst in you in order to get rid of it, NOT in making you have a comfortable life to enjoy for you, yourself, and make your flesh happy. The false pursuit of happiness misleads so many people now, because if they aren't happy it must not be right! True happiness comes in spending yourself into others, dying to our desires and wants, and sacrificially obeying God's word, whether our hearts agree what it says or not!