While I worshiped one Sunday morning, the preacher asked, “How would you change your life if you knew the day you would die?” The sermon was solely on this topic. Unknowingly the preacher rephrased the question while plugging away at his prepared topic, “How would you change your life if you knew the day Jesus was coming back?” Is the truth the two questions have different answers?
The answer to the first question involves legacy and maximizing talent. Stewardship in this case involves using all resources most wisely. Those resources are going to survive after death. After all, most people have someone else to take care of after their death. The deceased’s living spouse and children need a bounty of resources to survive.
The resources of reputation and raising godly offspring survive after death. If the deceased was a clear follower of Jesus the deceased’s reputation lives on pointing to Jesus. With children the deceased passes on the deceased’s greatest contribution to evangelism also as the children’s children of the decease continue pointing to Jesus.
The answer to the second question is specifically about witnessing. Urgency is the highest calling as a laborer for the Lord. Those with the talent of reaping must come to the forefront because time for sowing seeds and cultivating grows short. Stewardship strictly involves souls and using time most wisely.
However the answers mysteriously are not mutually exclusive. They both bring peace beyond human understanding through Christ Jesus. In either case the Holy Spirit is after souls while using the love of Jesus for eternal multiplication.
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