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“As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God” (1 Peter 4:10).
A steward is someone who is given responsibility for things that do not belong to him; rather he is entrusted with them by the owner, to use them properly, as the owner wishes. We saw yesterday that we are stewards of our money, but today we see that we are also stewards of our spiritual riches. What is the difference?
When you give away money to someone else, you have less of it yourself. But when you share your spiritual riches, you do not lose them; they are still yours. In fact, when you share spiritual riches, you enjoy them even more. In this way we are still stewards of them, but the Lord says (as we had in yesterday’s verses) that the spiritual riches are really our own, because even when we share them, we never lose them. We will not have money in heaven, but the spiritual riches will be ours for all eternity.
Again, our use of money and other natural things is an indication of how we will use spiritual riches. The Lord does not give spiritual riches to those who show clearly that they will not use them properly.
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