Entrusted: Your First 35 Days as a Steward

Day 1 of 35 · Week 1: Stewardship of Life

Welcome to the Family

If you have recently put your trust in Jesus, welcome. You are not starting a self-improvement program. You have been made new.

Paul says that anyone in Christ is a new creation. The old has gone. The new has come. That is not a feeling you have to work up. It is a fact God declares over you.

Paul also says something that may surprise you. You are not your own. You were bought at a price. Jesus paid for your life with His own.

That changes how you see everything you have. Your body, your days, your money, your relationships, your abilities. None of it is yours by ownership anymore. All of it is yours by trust.

The Bible has a word for someone who manages what belongs to another: a steward. A steward is not a slave and not an owner. A steward is a trusted manager, given real responsibility by someone who loves them.

Over the next 35 days you will look at five areas God has placed in your hands: your life, your faith, your time, your resources, and your influence. You will not master them in five weeks. No one does. But you will learn to see them the way God sees them.

Today, start simple. You belong to Him. Everything else in this plan flows from that.

Pray

Jesus, thank You for making me new. I did not earn this and I cannot repay it. I belong to You now, and everything I have belongs to You too. Teach me to hold it the way You want it held. Amen.

Today's Scripture (NIV)

• 2 Corinthians 5:17
• 1 Corinthians 6:19-20