A CHECKBOOK IS A THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENT
What is your “favorite” theological document? Maybe the
better question is: what IS a theological document? It is a document (book,
article, etc.) that discusses and perhaps interprets theology. According to Merriam
Webster, theology is “the study of religious faith, practice, and experience.”
Did you know that most of us have a theological document that
is probably carried in our purse or wallet every day? And it is the theological
document that we use the most. It’s not the Bible; it’s a checkbook (if you
still use checks) and your credit and debit cards.
If a theological document is defined as something that
includes religious faith, practice and experience, then those financial documents
definitely qualify! With God being the creator of everything and the provider
of everything, then everything we have and everything we do comes from God. So
it follows that how we utilize the financial resources in our keeping shows how
we treat our faith and relationship with God, because it shows our practice!
As disciples, we have the responsibility to care for
everything that has been entrusted to us, and that includes our financial
resources. How we use the resources entrusted to us means placing trust in God’s
plans and provision and budgeting and using and spending accordingly. And
caring for those resources means to use those.
We must
look for ways to use faithfully the assets with which God has blessed us. Before
we believe that that is exactly what we are doing, we have to look at what we
are actually doing. How? By looking at our checkbook, at our debit card statements
and at our credit card statements and see how are funds are actually being
spent.
What
we actually do, what we prioritize is no where more evident then when we look
at how we have used those assets that God has provided to us in God’s abundance.
We
all have priorities. The questions are:
· * Are they God’s priorities or our own?
· * Do we believe what we have is scarce because of having
not stewarded our resources wisely?
· * Do we trust the God of abundance in everything?
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