Fourth Thought:  We are stewards of the life. Life is sacred.  From conception to natural death, all life is a trust from the Lord.  How we invest this trust reflects what we believe about the One who is willing to lay down His life for us and the world.  This means we use the trust that God has in us to protect, defend, extend and preserve life so that we may point others to the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life:  Jesus.

 

Fifth thought:  We are stewards of death. This may sound a bit morbid, but as we steward the life that God has entrusted to us in this world, we also confess that we are but resident aliens in this world.  This trust is temporary.  But our Baptism reminds us that we have already died with Christ and have been raised with Him (Romans 6).  This takes away our fear of death in this world.  It is a call to entrust the life we live in this world to Jesus.  This means that we live for the Lord.  It also means that when we die, we die to the Lord.  Our life and death is a confession of the trust that we have been given in Jesus!

 

God Bless you all! Thank you for supporting Redeemer by The Sea,
Noreen Wenstone, Stewardship Chairperson
Next week’s article:Sixth and Seventh thoughts:  We are stewards of the present and of the future.