“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?” (vv. 10-11)

Sometimes I have to be honest with myself about envy, about jealousy.

I see the guys who, over a lifetime of faithfulness, have been entrusted with more and more. My every suspicion is that that trust is God’s will for God’s Kingdom for God’s glory. But I wonder what it takes to be one of those guys, too, and why it is that they steward so much that it looks like freedom.

Then I read the Bible.

And, in the Bible, I’m reminded: Every God-given increase follows a God-honoring stewardship. If I’m ever frustrated because of what I don’t have, I should probably be more critical of how I used what I did have. It’s not transactional—God isn’t required to give us anything, least of all based on our behavior, which is always suspect—but it is logical.

God trusts the trustworthy.

So, then, if I would hope to manage for God some something that seems abundant…I’d better manage whatever He has already given into my hands well.

(And, even if He chooses never to give the earthly increase, I already have everything in Christ.)

— Tyler