Is stewardship guarding your money so that you have enough to buy what you want, make it to the end of your life, and perhaps leave some for your children or others when you die? Now that is a fun question to start off a sermon with, isn’t it? Just hold onto that as we dive a bit deeper this morning.

Here is another question. Have you ever tried to argue your point about something only to come to find out down the road that the position you held was wrong? Therefore, as you trace back your argument you begin to realize how foolish you must have looked and sounded along the way?

The Word of God as the writer of Hebrews “is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.”

The writer of Hebrews writes this as the way in which God gets through to our hard heartedness. As Skylar said last week, we can avoid a hard heart by remembering all that God has done not just for us, but throughout history for all humanity. And God says, when your hearts are hardened, I have given you my word to pierce through the hardness so that you may humble yourself return back to me and once again find my heart and my hope for you.

Yes, indeed, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. Because of who he is and what he alone has done, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Stewardship is not managing our life and the gifts God has given us in a way that builds our kingdom and give us a good life, but it is in listening to His voice, allowing His Word to pierce our heart, humbly bowing before him, and following where He leads the way.

For He alone is good and anything short of this is accepting a hardening of our heart and ultimately going way sad.

All I was asking was did you make it right? Jesus looks and you with love. Amen.

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