Organizing and Stewardship..

"Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given to you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service, you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. " - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity


This past weekend and the beginning of this week was spent organizing and cleaning with the help of my wonderful grandma. We cleaned up rooms and spent a lot of time organizing baby clothes and things into containers for storage. As we were working on these things the topic that was on my mind almost constantly was stewardship. Even before this week this had really been on my heart and mind with everything that has happened lately and i think the circumstances have really opened my eyes to what this really means. Everything we are given is God's and our job is to take care of these things to the best of our ability. This means our physical things, our bodies, and our children. I guess i never really understood the concept of our children not being ours until God decided to take Levi back home. It was in that moment that i realized that he was never ours to begin with, we were just given him for a season to take care of and love. This concept applies to everything in our lives! I think this quote sums it up nicely:

"Although God gives us "all things richly to enjoy," nothing is ours. Nothing really belongs to us. God owns everything; we're responsible for how we treat it and what we do with it. While we complain about our rights here on earth, the Bible constantly asks, What about your responsibilities? Owners have rights; stewards have responsibilities."

I run across people every day that are so caught up in themselves that they fail to see how selfishly they are living. Don't get me wrong, more often than not, i am the same way. I do things based upon what i want in the moment, not considering that the things i have been given (including my time) are not mine to use as i wish. YES God wants us to be joyful and enjoy the moments we are given! But we cannot fully enjoy these moments unless they are directed by His will. I think a lot of times also we feel like we are 'taking care' of the things we have been given but this concept is not always what we think it is. Sometimes taking care of our children doesn't mean always keeping them safe. It means letting them do what God has called them to do even if in our minds this seems dangerous. I think the best way to describe how we should take care of something is that we should do with everything we have, what God would do with it if He were in our position. This is an interesting and sometimes difficult concept for me to grasp! If He were here what would He do with my children? If He were here would this house be a wreck most of the time? Probably not. If He were here would this house be a wreck if someone else needed his time and ministry? You betcha!

I know that i will fail in this aspect every single day. But i do believe that if we view things as not really being ours, we would go about life so very differently. If nothing we have is ours, then if God decides to take something away for a season, we have no reason to be angry or upset. This ultimately would result in a lot more peace in our lives. Just food for thought.

Stay Joyful,

~Sarah~


"The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it." - Psalm 24:1

- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

- See more at: http://blog.tifwe.org/four-principles-of-biblical-stewardship/#sthash.UmzXyJ3J.dpuf

"Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service, you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. 

- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

- See more at: http://blog.tifwe.org/four-principles-of-biblical-stewardship/#sthash.UmzXyJ3J.dpuf