Taking Care of God’s Property
By Faye Dianne M. Gayo

Ephesians 5:15
“Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise but as wise.”

When I was still a small child, I used to join the Sunday School Ministry where in I’ve learned a lesson of being a good steward in everything that God has given me. I was taught that being a good steward means taking good care of my body, my talent and my testimony. At a very young age of seven, I started to apply that truth in my life and found it difficult yet very fulfilling.

Being a student, I discovered that the word STUDY doesn’t only mean to just read and understand what was learned in school. It also means staying late at school, being awake overnight doing all the assignments and projects. Sometimes, it also means skipping meals which is very unhealthy.

In my first two years in high school, I managed to practice the truth that I have learned with regards to taking care of my body.

But when I reached my junior years, I forgot all about it, instead I just went with the ‘flow of business.’ It was later that God reminded me of a very important thing in life. It is when I failed in the subject of mathematics; it is the subject that I really did my best to get a very satisfying grade.

Consequently, I got depressed. I cried out to God and asked Him why it turned out that way. Then God made me realized that because of my desire, I failed to take care of my body well, my ministry in church and my relationship with my family.

From then on I learned that even if we do everything else in order to succeed yet I failed to also take care of myself, God has a way of reminding us in our mistakes.

God wants us to be a good steward in all the things that he has entrusted to us. This does not only mean to take good care of the things that we have but also it means about investing and developing these things for God’s Glory.