🥇Stewardship Of God's Blessings: WW-10

Send us Fan MailWhat is the 'world system' cycle of life? Well, it is definitely contrary to our last Weapons of Warfare study of “Sacrificial Faithfulness.” Let’s see if this sounds familiar. Work hard in school, get a good education, get a job, work to climb the ladder, get promotions and pay raises, rise to the top of your profession, retire, and die.  In the middle of this, you get bigger, newer cars, bigger houses, bigger debt, and then live in fear until you die that you will lose what you sacrificed for, and be without all your pleasures and securities. We tell ourselves, “I have worked so hard, I deserve a break and a vacation. Something to distract me from this burden I am under. I need to now spend time with the family I have ignored to attain all of this.” We think this gives meaning to the cycle, because “hey, at least I can do this thing I like because I do those things!” So now, the cycle kind of makes sense. Then we slowly build up walls of debt and stuff we no longer use. Then we move on to storing these things in the house and garage, then in storage buildings. We think that when God allows us to prosper, it is to feed the vicious cycle we have bought into. Stewardship in this paradigm to the individual is to steward one’s own blessings for one’s own well being.  Yet, like the saying goes: “He who dies with the most toys in the end, still dies.” But, why does man seek to build diminishing towers of worship to self and wealth? Even in the church, the “prosperity Gospel” teaches a person to focus on the world and the world’s goods. Yet, the simple math is this: If we are not our own and we are bought with a price, (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) then what you posses is not your own, and God has purchased you. There is no such thing as personal wealth to a Christian. It is all God’s wealth. All a Christian has and is allowed to retain does not belong to them, and is not meant to be used to be consumed upon their desires and lusts. This is contrary to the world’s cycle of wealth. But it is the truth. We are called to find security in Jesus and God’s love, not the numbers in our bank account. Yet, we retain those numbers in an attempt to keep only what God’s blessing can truly provide. But the world and the church teach that those digits are the blessing. The church has switched from the love of God to the love of God’s blessings. #Stewardship #faithfulness # God'sBlessingsWebsitehttps://brotherlance.com/weapons-of-our-warfare/Watch The Videohttps://youtu.be/qHfV4apOjWA New IntroSupport the showBecome A SupporterJOIN US!> Main Website: https://brotherlance.com/> Free Book: http://weshallbelikehim.com/> Free Music: https://brotherlance.com/brother-lance-music/> Social - Gab: https://gab.com/BrotherLance