GRACE CENTRE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
DATE: 29th August, 2024.
TOPIC: Stewardship
BIBLE TEXT: John 3: 30
He must increase, but I must decrease.

MESSAGE
When the crowds left John the Baptist to follow Jesus, he said: “This is the assigned moment for him to move into the center, while I slip off to the sidelines.
John thought like a steward, as a steward simply manages something for the owner until he comes to take it back. John knew that the crowd leaving him for Christ was never his to begin with. God had simply placed them under his care for a period of time to accomplish certain purposes. With John this was apparently just fine. John’s view of stewardship presents us with an important principle. For his crowds may be our careers, our assets, our natural and spiritual gifts, etc. are they owned or merely managed in the name of the One who they entrusted them to us?

Your output depends on whether you’re called or driven. Driven people consider them owned; called people don’t. When driven people lose them, nothing’s changed. Why? Because their calling is not to a position, it’s to a person – the person of Christ. Knowing who he was not, was the beginning of John knowing who he was. And who was he? A steward! He didn’t aspire to anything beyond that.

What is success as God counts success? It’s when others hear you, but follow Jesus. It’s when others see some quality in you that cause them to fall more in love with Him. Only then, can you truly say, “Father, I’ve done what You called me to do.

ACTION POINT: Place God first in your life because He owns it all.

PRAYER POINT: Heavenly Father, help me to be a good steward of Your grace. Amen