Has Your Life Started Yet?

Do you know anyone whose life hasn’t started yet? Maybe they justify their atrocious spending habits on the fact that they’re young. Or put in a half-hearted attempt at work because they’re underemployed. But they say that once they’re older, married, a parent, have more time, or have landed a “real” job, then they’re really going to get their financial life in order.

In Luke 16, Jesus says two important things about how we manage the things that we have. First, he reminds us to be wise in our dealings with the story of a lazy manager who shrewdly saves his job by collecting on some bad debts. Then, Jesus says we are to use money to build relationships and not let it take the place of God in our lives.

Sandwiched between those is the reminder that whether or not we can be trusted with a little shows whether or not we can be trusted with a lot. Whenever I read that, it cuts at the heart of my temptation to think Jesus’ teaching is something I can put off until some later time. We are to be wise today, Jesus says, because how we manage our money today may affect what God will entrust us with in the future.

Respond in Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for the reminder that money and professional success should not be either my goal or my god. Help me to start making wise decisions with what you’ve given me today, so that one day you might entrust me with even bigger and better things. Amen

Mags Storey

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version® (NIV®).