Holding On Loosely
Consider 1 Samuel 18:8
And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?”
Saul’s response here isn’t as much regarding David himself, but the work the Lord was doing through David.
Huge difference.
From time to time, when someone moves into a position of authority, it is forgotten that the position is truly God’s to give to whomever He declares. In forgetting this, when the time comes for a change in your role (as life often brings), it becomes a far more difficult transition than it needs to be. God has called us to be stewards of the places that we are influential-be that a job, at school or at church. Whatever your role might be, it’s never about title, but about the Lord’s purposes. So often we are enticed to a particular person or role simply by it’s title, not asking the Lord who He would see attending to the work of that role.
In a way, I find it a little ironic that we’re discussing stewardship of role when in the very beginning of 1st Samuel, Hannah, Samuel’s mom, gives a stirring example of what good stewardship is. In 1 Samuel 1 (which we read a few days ago), Hannah presents a vow to the Lord that if He would bless her with a son, she would give him right back. And she did. Because Hannah understood that whatever good we have in our lives is from the Lord and in that, she was simply a steward.
So here we are, looking on at the inner struggle of stewardship, authority and anointing that was raging inside of Saul. One can’t help but wonder…do we hold on too tightly to the things that we call our own but truly belong to the Lord? How would it change our perspectives if we really understood that nothing we had was truly ours? Would it change our point of view on our jobs, our classes, our kids or our positions? Would it make us more thankful?
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