Similitude, not Stewardship
Some time ago I listened to a podcast on the conundrum (from a certain point of view) between our lowliness before God and our own desire for more and greater things for ourselves which desire we sense in some aspect is right. Put crudely, whose kids are these? Is God their Father or am I?
The man thought the answer was stewardship. We possess what we possess as stewards for the owner and thus we and God both have them in some sense.
There is some scriptural basis for this idea. I don’t like it all the same. I wrote in my notes, similitude, not stewardship.
These relationships we form here are not just on someone else’s behalf. They are not even practice. The relationships we make are the foundation of eternity.
Sonship, not stewardship.
E.C.
May 16, 2023
I think that the relationships we create here on earth are entirely real, because we don’t possess people, and neither does God. If He did, that would be a restriction of the agency He gave us. When we are called by His name, we make ourselves His. When we love others, we don’t love a proxy of God – we love a child of God.
But the responsibilities we have in this sphere, and the way we use what we’re given materially, THAT is a stewardship. How do we care for the Earth and its creatures? ‘The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof’, and from Adam on down, we are expected to care for it and improve on its natural state to create gardens and vineyards, not wasteland and wilderness.