There is some guy in a car in the parking lot across the street from my office who must be made of money. I say this because he is sitting in his car revving the engine for who knows what reason. Over and over. And over. Huh, you would think a guy with money to burn like that would have a nicer car...
At the price of gas, he's really running up quite a tally. Six dollars... seven... eight...
He doesn't really seem to pay much heed to the fact that the gas station down the street posts the premium fare of $3.79 a gallon for this golden liquid. And I believe "golden" might be an accurate word here.
Nine dollars... ten... eleven...
Again and again he races the engine. Blue smoke is coming from his tailpipe. Well, not his tailpipe ... the car's. The tachometer in his dashboard must be all the way to the "red-line-o'-danger" ... twelve... thirteen... fourteen.
What a waste.
In my job I am developing something for Kids Church (my job is what I do when I'm not rambling on incessantly here) and it had to do with being a good steward. You don't know what that is? Let me 'splain it to you.
Every good thing we have comes from God. The Book of James says so. My money would fall under the category of "good thing." We were given these things to have dominion over them ... to use them for the best things. Perhaps even to make it grow, as in a bank investment, CD or the like.
Matthew 25 is about the man who went away and gave his property to three different people to care for it. The parable of the talents. One was given ten talents, the next five and the last one was given one talent. Two of them were really good at making a profit. One was not. He wasted what the owner had given him by burying it in the ground.
Waste. It's not how God wants us to spend what He has entrusted to us. We are not to waste our time, our energies, our gifts, our abilities... nothing. It is all to be spent wisely. To be used for a greater purpose than just on us.
Do we waste the abilities God has given us? Do we throw away the good gifts with which we have been blessed? Bury our talents so no one knows which ones we possess? Possibly.
Why would we do that? Maybe it's so no one asks anything of us. So we aren't asked to step up to the plate.
Ahhh... but here's something you probably don't remember. We were all given whatever talents, gifts, abilities, our desires yes, even our experiences to make us who we uniquely are. You are unique, just like everyone else. And God has a plan for you (Jeremiah 29:11). That plan includes all of those gifts, talents.... you get the idea.
You were designed to be someone God could use for His specific purposes. Don't waste that good thing He has given you.
Don't be like the guy across the street (seventeen... eighteen... nineteen dollars) working on his car. And yet the engine is revving as it has been all the while I have been typing away on this white screen.
Trying to fill... and not waste... this space.
At the price of gas, he's really running up quite a tally. Six dollars... seven... eight...
He doesn't really seem to pay much heed to the fact that the gas station down the street posts the premium fare of $3.79 a gallon for this golden liquid. And I believe "golden" might be an accurate word here.
Nine dollars... ten... eleven...
Again and again he races the engine. Blue smoke is coming from his tailpipe. Well, not his tailpipe ... the car's. The tachometer in his dashboard must be all the way to the "red-line-o'-danger" ... twelve... thirteen... fourteen.
What a waste.
In my job I am developing something for Kids Church (my job is what I do when I'm not rambling on incessantly here) and it had to do with being a good steward. You don't know what that is? Let me 'splain it to you.
Every good thing we have comes from God. The Book of James says so. My money would fall under the category of "good thing." We were given these things to have dominion over them ... to use them for the best things. Perhaps even to make it grow, as in a bank investment, CD or the like.
Matthew 25 is about the man who went away and gave his property to three different people to care for it. The parable of the talents. One was given ten talents, the next five and the last one was given one talent. Two of them were really good at making a profit. One was not. He wasted what the owner had given him by burying it in the ground.
Waste. It's not how God wants us to spend what He has entrusted to us. We are not to waste our time, our energies, our gifts, our abilities... nothing. It is all to be spent wisely. To be used for a greater purpose than just on us.
Do we waste the abilities God has given us? Do we throw away the good gifts with which we have been blessed? Bury our talents so no one knows which ones we possess? Possibly.
Why would we do that? Maybe it's so no one asks anything of us. So we aren't asked to step up to the plate.
Ahhh... but here's something you probably don't remember. We were all given whatever talents, gifts, abilities, our desires yes, even our experiences to make us who we uniquely are. You are unique, just like everyone else. And God has a plan for you (Jeremiah 29:11). That plan includes all of those gifts, talents.... you get the idea.
You were designed to be someone God could use for His specific purposes. Don't waste that good thing He has given you.
Don't be like the guy across the street (seventeen... eighteen... nineteen dollars) working on his car. And yet the engine is revving as it has been all the while I have been typing away on this white screen.
Trying to fill... and not waste... this space.
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