Spending Our Assets For the Kingdom of God

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” Ephesians 2:10

One of the most powerful demonstrations that we have indeed been born anew in Jesus Christ, is how we handle personal assets. It can be easy to spend corporate assets through churches and Christian organizations. Personal assets touch the very core of who we are! 

In obedience to this divine design that God has caused for me to be born anew into, what have I learned to do with all of the things I have at my hand? 

The more observable collective power of corporate giving, is, I think, outweighed by the evident transformation seen in what we do with the assets we control. 

God has designed it so in those of us who, having been made new in Jesus, have set our eyes on eternity, and acknowledged that we were not only created to fellowship with God, we were  also created to steward the world He has placed into our hands. 

Managing our assets for His glory is a maturing sign that we have entered into the more important dimension of eternal life, not just this life. Jesus said it this way. 

“And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’ Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”