Christian stewardship begins with the correct understanding that everything we have belongs to the Lord.

Stewardship, then, is not just a focus on money or material things, but also encompasses every spiritual blessing. In this study, making the most of all God

has given, Scott Pauley teaches biblical principles for Christian stewardship. One day, we will meet God

and give an account of how we have handled all of the resources he has put in our hands. Let's listen intently to learn how

God expects us to steward his resources.

Perhaps you've heard the expression that things are not always what they seem. Well, that is

certainly true, but today I want to tell you that things are not always what they seem. Well, that is certainly true, but today I want to tell you that things are not always what you see.

And we have this tendency to get our eyes fixed on people, fixed on things, fixed on circumstances,

fixed on time, and we think that those are the realities.

But I want to remind you that for a child of God, there are spiritual realities that are

greater than the physical ones, that God is always greater than man, and eternity is always

greater than time. Remember, there are two ways to live. You're either going to live by sight

or you're going to live by faith. What is faith? Faith is looking beyond what you can see.

Remember, the substance of things hope for, the evidence of things not seen.

So the faith life looks beyond the immediate, beyond the temporal, beyond yourself and others,

and puts its attention on the Lord. Things are not

always what you see. This is one of the great stewardship principles found in 1st Corinthians

chapter number four, and if you're going to make the most of your life, you've got to learn this

principle. Permit me to read a few verses here today, beginning in verse number

six, where we left off, the Bible says, in these things brethren, as Paul's there just a moment,

what things? The things we've been learning about being ministers and stewards, about being found

faithful, about doing what we do not to please men but for the praise of God.

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