Do Your Due Diligence; Excellence In Stewardship/Rashea@LLO2 Academy

Does God want you to give your best everday?

Yes, God does expect us to give our best, but on those days where life is a press and you did your best just to make it through the day... that's enough. We all have those days where we say and feel "I can't even."😂🤣 I understand. Grace and mercy is available for you.😂. 

PUSH THROUGH UNTIL YOU MAKE IT THROUGH. Amen.

Today I want to discuss good stewardship.  We go about each day performing and completing our daily tasks, but we don't give enough consideration to the principles of good stewardship. I want to evoke an inner awareness of stewardship.

Good stewardship and excelling in stewardship is important to God. It has to be, because it was Jesus who discussed stewardship in the gospels. In one passage of Scripture stewardship is referred to as good or bad. In another passage of Scripture, stewardship is referred to as excellent or the Master's enemies.👀 Let that sink in.

Good stewardship and excelling in stewardship is a blessing and not a burden. Whether we are devout Christian's or not, we all have an obligation to steward our lives and tasks well, in all facets of our lives. Stewardship is a divine law that guides the course of all mankind and creation.

We are blessed when we are fruitfully productive with our portion of gifts, talents, skills, resources and time. On the other hand we bring peril and consequences on ourselves when we are idle and unproductive with what God has allotted us. So what are you doing with what God has given you? How are you utilizing what God has given you?

When you are inwardly aware of what God has given you, you are less likely to be idle and unproductive, because you have a sense of purpose and an obligation to fulfill it. Your level of increase and fruitfulness is the result of your effort. One passage of Scripture says, "The worker who received five set out immediately to produce more." And the one with two talents did the same.

You have to see your life, values, effort, resources, gifts, talents and experiences as valuable and set out immediately to do something worthwhile no matter what they are. How you see, impacts how you proceed. God doesn't restrict your abilities to produce. He blesses them and gives you freedom to be creative and as fruitful as you need to be as He leads you.

God is not a micromanager in any regards. He gives us thinking and breathing room to do our job. The Bible says, "The owner left for a while and then came back to see how productive the workers were in his absence." In other words, God gives us space to discover the responsibility of leadership and being a leader within ourselves for ourselves. It's God's way of saying, "I believe in you."

God doesn't tell us how to be fruitful or productive with our tasks, but He does expect a harvest of some kind. And yes. God does get very upset when we have been entrusted with leadership responsibilities and don't produce on the level of our potential.

How do you see your leaders? Let me ask another question. How are you as a leader?

You may not always agree with your leaders and the leadership, but you do have an obligation to fulfill your assignment. Furthermore, leaders. You may not always like or agree with those you oversee, but as a leader, you do have an obligation to be fair and to lead with understanding and integrity.

God holds leaders and the leadership accountable, too. Although you oversee people, remember there is someone or something overseeing you.👀 Let that sink in. 

When we don't produce on the level of our potential, and all that we need to do it is given to us, we cannot blame anyone or anything but ourselves. The steward who deemed their portion as insignificant bore the consequences of their own wrong thinking and own wrong behavior. God deems idleness a sin. When you are slow to act on the tasks God has given you and you deem your assignment as insignificant, it's a sin. However, to behave and to believe what God has given you is important are acts and thoughts of righteousness. When you excel in your good works, it makes God very happy.

God promotes the diligent. God demotes those that are idle. We are all held responsible for our actions or the lack of them.

Get busy being productive! The Bible does not tell us how and what steps the stewards took to increase their profit, but it does say they increased their profit before the owner and lord of the house returned. God wants YOU to discover what He placed inside of you. He wants you to expand the kingdom of God and to be prosperous and successful.

For we are God's own handiwork revealed in Christ Jesus, born anew... that we may do those good works which God predestined beforehand for us taking paths that He Himself prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them, living the good life which God predestined and made ready for us to live before we even existed. -Ephesians 2:10

Rashea@LLO2