It is hard to steward wealth and influence well. The majority of people who gain them tend to be corrupted by them. It has become proverbial: “Power corrupts.” The more aware you are of the dangers, the better the possibility that you may be one of the few who actually succeeds in mastering these things. The key to stewarding success is to ensure that you grow along with your fortunes. Your internal growth must match your external gains. The key to growth is to always remain correctable. You must learn to accept that you are always in the wrong in some area of our life and growth is the process of discovering those areas in your life that need change. A lot of people work harder to prove themselves right when there is actually no personal gain in this. If you are right and others are wrong, then you gain nothing. But if others are right and you are wrong you have the opportunity to be challenged, corrected and to grow. It’s strange that we still work so hard to defend ourselves against the possibility of being wrong. It is wasted energy. Far better to spend that energy on trying to discover where we are wrong. That benefits us greatly. Embrace your fallibility, be honest with yourself about it, and have the humility to be corrected by others. Take your wrongs to God, confess them and ask him to help you change.
Reflect on the most pressing area of fault in your life now and talk to God about it.
Read Ecclesiastes 4:13-16
