This is the 28th post as I attempt to visit everything (pretty much!) Jesus said about money in the gospels over 2 weeks. In order to do this I will be putting up around two posts each day. This is coinciding with a 2-week preaching series that we are going through at Community Church Putney- Jesus On Money.
‘A young
couple who missed out on a £3-million lottery fortune after losing their ticket
described their ordeal yesterday as the 'cruellest torture imaginable'.
On what should
have been a joyous first wedding anniversary, Martyn and Kay Tott told how
their astonishingly bad luck had ended their dreams, left them devastated and
put a strain on their marriage.
After hearing
a TV appeal about the unclaimed jackpot and recognising the numbers as their
own, they had turned their flat upside down looking for the ticket - without
success.
Camelot
officials investigated their claim for seven weeks and were satisfied that it
was genuine. But because there is a 30-day time limit on reporting lost
tickets, it was concluded that the company had no legal powers to pay up.’
(Daily Mail July 2015)
Many of us have imagined all
the good that we think we would do if we came into a fortune in some way.
How would
you know if you could handle a fortune?
How would you know if you could handle fame?
How would you know if you could handle
great spiritual power?
Jesus on money teaches us that a very
accurate indicator of your ability to handle much is how you are handling
little!
Jesus taught:
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be
trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be
dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly
wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been
trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your
own? (Luke 16:10-12)
So, how are you doing on being generous with the
little money that you have? How are you doing on handling the little gifts you
have? Let’s remember that our money is ‘someone else’s property’- it
belongs to God! How are you handling it for Him?
Take a moment to ask God to search you:
are you committed to being a great steward of the little things that God has given to you?
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