Volume 50 Issue 1 - January 2012 : Mokanoki

In the last issue of Kutlwano I promised you that we will examine the question: Can God trust you with more? Let me keep my promise. This is a new year and one of my resolutions in this year is to keep my promises.  Do not forget we are using Myles  Munroe, one of the international motivational speakers` definition of the word ‘management`. He says “Management is the effective, efficient, correct and timely use of another person`s property and resources for the purpose for which they were delegated with the view

to producing the expected added value.” The argument here is that you and I do not own anything in  this world. We are all managing another person`s property, not our own property.

We do not own anything that exists on the earth. We a have also come to the conclusion that discipline is the key to proper management. We learn from Luke16:10-12 that God gives you what you can manage.

You pray for a job, God says OK but the last job you had you went to work late everyday. You nock off early. O ne o lekanya tiro le madi.You pray for a big house, God

says what about the house you have you have? Did you keep it up? Fa ke tsena kwa gago ke kopantshiwa ke diaparo, kwa kicheng gone ga ke bue. I know you are only renting it but you are not even keeping it clean. The fact of the matter is that you and I are going to give an account of the things

God asked us to manage. What I am trying to say here is that we are going to have to give an account to God of what we did with his money. I mean the one you call your salary, His time, many of us spend a lot of time sleeping doing nothing. You are going to give an account, His gifts, His talents, His resources, the house He got for you, the apartment He enabled you to rent, the car you are using, and more.

None of that is yours. Although you cannot claim ownership if you are the manager, your accountability comes with your responsibility to manage properly. Don`t claim to own anything.Remember that rich man in the Bible who gloated about how his hard work had made _him wealthy and who decided to put up bigger barns in which to hoard his riches? (See Luke 12:16-20.) God took his life the same night. He never even got to enjoy it. He should have realized that all that abundance of provision had been loaned to him, in a sense. He was supposed to take care of it and be generous with it instead of stockpiling it and congratulating himself that all of his hard work was behind him.

Here is the bottom line. Effective management is what will determines the amount of your resources. If you are a good manager and you obey God`s principles, it will not matter what kind of crisis comes; you will be ready. You will be able to weather any crisis, even if some of the resources disappear. You will have a savings account to tide you over in case you lose your job. You will know how to consider carefully whether or not you can afford to spend money right now. Sometimes we like to quote

Proverbs 13:22, at least the first part of it. The first part reads, “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children`s children,” and we agree with that part easily. Then we gloss over the second part of the proverb: “but a sinner`s money will not come to you as you stand there saying, “Money, come!”

It will not come to you by your binding or loosing anything. You may have been praying to no avail for ten years for additional monetary resources, and you still do not have a thing to show for it except sore knees. The resources do not come by prayer, even if the prayer is long and loud and sincere; the resources come through prayer in addition to good management of the resources you already have. Start small and work up.

Start by being honest, by not taking that insignificant little paper clip. Conserve. Stop and think. Do not throw away that iece of paper. Write on the back of it. Turn off the lights when you leave the room. Tithe your income. File your taxes honestly. Do not live above your means. Can God trust you?

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