There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it.

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."