“Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God” (30:8-9). Most of us can empathise with the desire of Tevye from Fiddler On The Roof. He wanted to be a rich man. The last line of Tevye’s famous song goes like this: “Would it spoil some vast eternal plan, if I were a wealthy man?” Well, the truth is that it probably would spoil God’s plan for a person if they received wealth and lacked the character to steward that wealth. It’s not that wealth is a bad thing. God entrusts great wealth to some people. That is both a great blessing and a great responsibility. But, believe me, you do not want more than you can steward. I shared earlier in this edition of Thrive how thankful I am that I didn’t become as rapidly successful as I wanted to become when I was a young man. I know now that I would not have had the maturity to steward that success well and it would have certainly derailed me. It is the same with wealth. God knows how much he can entrust to you. And when you show yourself faithful with a little, he may entrust you with more. As it is God often gives us just that bit more than we can easily bear. He does this to draw us upwards to a greater responsibility. He certainly always gives us far more than we are worthy of.
Ask God to show you how you can be a better steward of the resources he has entrusted to you already.
Read Proverbs 30
