Last week, Pastor Tammy Long introduced a new sermon series entitled “Life Reimagined.” From the beginning of human existence on the planet, God has wanted us humans to be Stewards. To broaden our thinking and envision what a reimagined life can look like, we define stewardship as:
“to trust in the promises of God, to deploy the resources of God, to accomplish the mission of God for the glory of God.” This week, we unpack the first segment of this definition and wrestle with the implications of trusting in the promises of God. Then as now, early Christians struggled with learning how to work with God’s promises. During immense persecution and about to be executed, Peter wrote to Christians like us, who are going through difficult times, “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these, he has given us his very great and precious promises so that through them, you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires” (2nd Peter 1:3). Peter is saying that the promises of God are supposed to do something. Through the promises of God, the character of God is produced in us. Promises are a big deal.