Thursday, July 10, 2014

Today's Bible reading is the 4th chapter of the Book of 1st Corinthians. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%204&version=NASB

As I consider today's passage of scripture I intend for my comments to be somewhat brief. I suppose in a sense, Paul may have been speaking of himself and others in similar positions of authority when he said, "Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God." But are we not all His servants and all stewards of the gospel message? I believe that we are and that what he goes on to say about stewardship is applicable to each of us. He writes, "It is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy." Oh, that we might be found by God to be trustworthy stewards of the mysteries of Christ that God has graciously revealed to us. Trustworthy and faithful to the word of truth. In Ephesians Paul wrote of "the stewardship of God's grace" which had been given to him and in 1st Peter the Apostle Peter wrote of "serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God". As stewards, may we handle God's grace with great care and watchfulness. The gospel of grace both requires and is worthy of our being trustworthy with it. May God help us in this endeavor and may we remember Peter's words that teach us that such stewardship is a manner of "serving one another".

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