Life is a trust
Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships and resources are all given by God. God entrusted these gifts to our care and management. We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. The first job God gave humans was to manage and take care of His “stuff” on earth. Everything we enjoy is to be treated as a trust that God has placed in our hands. At the end of our life on earth we will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well we handed what God entrusted us to do, even simple chores have eternal implications.
The more God give us, the more responsible He expects us to be
Psalm 24 : 1
The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Genesis 1 : 28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1 Corinthians 4 : 2
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Luke 12 : 48
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
(Stops & Steps 1031 06VIII2009)