The Stewardship of Money

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
Avelino came home from a trip one day to find three dozen baby chickens in the side yard. Going into the house, he asked his wife Catalina where the chickens had come from. She told him that the chicks were hers. She had bought them with her own money to raise and sell. He asked, “Are you sure they are yours?” “Yes, they are mine,” she responded with some emphasis on that word “mine.” Then he said, “You must watch them night and day. If they were the Lord’s and you were caring for them on His behalf, then you could look to Him to watch over them, but since they are yours, you will have to take special care of them.” A night or two later it rained and some of the chicks drowned. The night after that a good number of them were taken by a wild animal. Others got sick and died. In less than two weeks none were left. Catalina was learning a valuable, but painful lesson in the “stewardship of money.” Remembering Solomon’s comment, “The borrower is servant to the lender [master],” we do well to heed the Lord’s words, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Prov. 22:77The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. (Proverbs 22:7); Matt. 6:2424No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24)).
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