BE FAITHFUL WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

My Meditation: Luke 16:10
Since the sermon on Sunday, I have been thinking about being faithful with what I have. It is very common for us to despise what we have, and long for only what we do not have. As the saying goes, “the grass always seems greener on the other side.”

Unfortunately, as long as we think that we do not have much, we despise it and deny ourselves the opportunity to grow. When you study the stories of most successful people, you realize that they were not given much, but they used what they had (and it is often very little). They were patient, consistent and disciplined, and they made it. But we often long to make it with very little discipline or work. We want success to be handed to us.

Over and over in scripture, God asks people “what do you have?”, and then he takes whatever they have, and uses it to create more. Even in the gospels, Jesus often invited people to take part in their miracle: He asked the blind man to go and wash in the river (he had to use his legs to walk and his mouth to keep asking for directions). He asked the paralyzed man to get up, pick up his mat and walk… He also invites you and I to take part in His story that He is writing in us.

The temptation is to ask God for more, while we refuse to recognize what we have, let alone put it to use and increase it. So, this week, TAKE STOCK of what you have. What has God given you? How faithful are you with that (Faithfulness is increase)? Before we can ask to be trusted with more, let us be faithful/ let us increase what we have. As long as we value it, God will work with us to increase it.

Luke 16:10
10 “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. (NLT)