Requirement for Service and Stewardship

Have you noticed that if you are really good at something, you are in high demand? An athlete who is strong, agile, and skilled is wanted by everybody’s team. An artist who can make beautiful pictures or sculptures may create something exquisite to be displayed in a popular tourist spot. A mechanic or handyman is always being asked to fix something.

Members of the Lord’s church are in high demand! Gospel preachers may be asked to conduct gospel meetings, lectureships, weddings, funerals, or other special events. Others may be asked to fix a car, improve the grounds of a house, provide transportation to a hospital or doctor’s office, sit with a patient, or do something else that person is good at doing. Jesus said, “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more (Luke 12:48).”

We are often called upon by other members of the Lord’s church, but remember that we are especially called by God to work in His kingdom! We all have something we can do, and by doing it for others we do it unto Jesus Christ (Matthew 25:40). It is our purpose to serve God, and we can all do so in some way. There is one thing that God does require of us: “Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful (1 Corinthians 4:1-2).”

God has provided good gifts and abilities (James 1:17). Let us use them in faithful service to one another, and in service unto God, showing good stewardship of these blessings. Let us be faithful in our Bible study, prayer, Christian living, preaching and teaching the gospel, and service to Him and one another. When we are asked to do something for someone, this should encourage us to remain faithful.

What have good gifts and abilities you been given?  What can you give as a result?