Welcome to Elmhurst CRC's daily dose the Word of God. It's Wednesday, July 17th and it's the season of green and growing things, including our spiritual lives. This Summer we're sitting at Jesus's feet, listening to his parables, the stories that shed meaning on our lives. My name is Kyle Olson and I serve here as the Technical Director at Elmhurst CRC. Today, I'll be reading from Luke chapter 16, verses 10 through 13 (the Voice).
Kyle Olson 0:39
If you’re faithful in small-scale matters, you’ll be faithful with far bigger responsibilities. If you’re crooked in small responsibilities, you’ll be no different in bigger things. If you can’t even handle a small thing like money, who’s going to entrust you with spiritual riches that really matter? If you don’t manage well someone else’s assets that are entrusted to you, who’s going to give over to you important spiritual and personal relationships to manage? Imagine you’re a servant and you have two masters giving you orders. What are you going to do when they have conflicting demands? You can’t serve both, so you’ll either hate the first and love the second, or you’ll faithfully serve the first and despise the second. One master is God and the other is money. You can’t serve them both.
Kyle Olson 1:31
Let's pray. Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you for your lessons. Thank you for your gifts of grace and gifts of mercy. Help us to take responsibilities over the little things in our life so that you may entrust us with the larger things. Help us to serve you and not money, but help us to be good stewards of the things that you give us. In your name, amen.
