8/16/2023 0 Comments Be a good steward of money![]() ![]() ![]() That means everyone has 31,536,000 seconds or 525,600 minutes every year. You can live without money, but when your time runs out, you are finished! You have the same amount of this valuable resource that everyone else has, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 365 (or 366) days in a year. How precious is it? Reportedly, the dying words of Queen Elizabeth I were these: “All my possessions for a moment of time.” It can be spent or wasted but can never be saved or returned to you. Everyone’s supply is renewed every single day he or she is alive. It is a resource that is universally nondiscriminatory and fairly distributed. My sisters and brothers, let us all be good stewards of God’s mysteries, generous and faithful, not counting the cost to ourselves, but rather laying up treasure for ourselves in heaven.There is a resource you have that is far more precious than your money. Protecting who we are and what we have is the watchword for our times, instead of the pouring out of ourselves in sacrificial imitation of Jesus. It seems like a world which has been untouched by the tremendous gift of God’s own Son pouring out his life and love for us. There is much selfishness in our world today. How can we who have experienced these great gifts of God not want to share them, hand them on, bring others to enjoy this grace?Ĭertainly, all of us have heard the phrase, “Time, talent and treasure.” In our families, in our parishes, in our diocese, and in the universal church and world, we are to be about giving glory to God. These mysteries deserve our utmost care.Įach of us will care for these mysteries in different ways, but care for them we must. He does expect us to handle very carefully the wonderful mysteries we have been given: salvation, grace, the sacraments, the church, forgiveness of sins, faith, hope and love. This summons to be stewards, to exercise good stewardship falls upon all those who are followers of Jesus Christ. In so doing, we might miss the opportunity to serve Christ the master as he returns at an inconvenient time. Not everything can be done, but it simply does not do to completely ignore those who need us. Since that is not possible, however, I have since made it a habit to send a quick prayer to our Heavenly Father that he look kindly on these people and their good works. It would be very good if there were resources to benefit all of them. My practice used to be just to chuck them into the waste basket. Many begging letters (that’s what my grandmother always called them) come across my desk every day. Rather, it is all about giving glory to God by being faithful, wise, trustworthy and generous. Stewardship is not about efficiency and organization. He adds: “As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace” so that, in all things, God may be glorified. Peter, in his first letter (4:10), admonishes his hearers to avoid the evils of the age and, instead, to love one another, especially practicing hospitality. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians (4:1-2) calls himself a steward of the mysteries of God to be a steward, he adds, is to be found trustworthy. Jesus finally asks, “Who is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household?” Jesus then concludes that we do not know when the Son of Man will return, so we must be ready. If he finds his servants awake when he arrives, Jesus says, the master will have them sit at table and the master will serve them. Luke’s Gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a master who comes home from a wedding feast. ![]()
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