God's Glory Church

Last time we talked about two main stages in becoming God’s judge for our generation. We also touched upon the fact that today we put into the concept of a judge not quite the meaning that God puts into it. For us, a judge is a person with authority who decides during a trial who is right and who is wrong and then pronounces a verdict. God’s judge does not just pass sentences, his main mission is to become the answer to the problems and needs of the society in which he lives. And although he also makes judgments about what is of God and what is not, the purpose of his judgment is not accusation. His goal is to give the right answers and solve the needs of his people on the basis of God’s judgment.

Speaking about the fact that today we do not quite understand the role of God’s judge in the modern world, I would like to look with you at one more image that Christ brings in relation to those who believe in Him and the responsibility that He places on us:

“The Lord said: Who is the faithful and prudent steward, whom the master appointed over his servants to distribute to them in due season a measure of bread? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, finds doing so.” (Luke 12:42-48)

In this parable, Christ compares the people who believed in Him to a steward, a person who received from the Master the privilege and responsibility of managing his master’s house. This term is already much more understandable for us; in fact, a housekeeper personifies any position in society or in a specific enterprise, which implies the management of material and human resources in the interests of a certain person or even an entire nation. The steward does not manage his own estate and not his own people, he manages what is entrusted to him.

This is the first lesson of this parable – what we have today: our life, time, abilities and various material goods – all this has been entrusted to us by the Lord. After all, it was He who created us, gave us life and, accordingly, everything that we use in this life, and everything that we have today.

The next thing the Lord reveals to us is that it is not enough to know what exactly has been entrusted to you, it is also important to use it all correctly! It is at the stage of managing everything that is entrusted to us that we most often fail to pass the most important exam – we succumb to the temptation to use what is entrusted to us only for ourselves, as if it belonged exclusively to us. And this is not just a problem for believers – it is a problem for our entire society. Families suffer from this, the church suffers from this, and when this happens at the level of rulers, entire countries and peoples suffer from this. And what does the Lord offer us? Does He have an answer to this abuse? Is it even possible to solve this, and can we somehow change the situation?

Yes, God has the answer, and it is for believers to become faithful stewards of all that the Lord has entrusted to us!

After all, Jesus does not say in this parable that a good servant is a believing servant. Not a believer, but a faithful one! He who does not trust God, but the one whom God can trust!!A believer feels good, but people cry around him, and a faithful one – who knows, whether he is good or bad, he does not burden those around him with his problems – but the people around him feel good!!! This does not mean, of course, that a believer cannot be faithful at the same time. This means that God’s hierarchy of values ​​is the opposite of the sanctimonious, but coincides with the normal human one.

Let us not wait today for the political crisis in our country to be resolved. Let’s stop shifting responsibility to the president and the opposition. The Lord has placed the responsibility on you and me. He has entrusted us to be His stewards. This is not just a title and privileges – it is, first of all, responsibility for what is entrusted to us and for how we manage everything that is entrusted to you and me today!