The idea of stewardship is that everything that we have access to in life are all finite resources. Those things we have access to are not ours; they are on loan from God. Our time, talent, finance, and even our very lives belong to God. The one area that is the most easily identifiable, and is one of the most uncomfortable to discuss, is money. More than half of the parables Jesus used were about money. Our text tonight is one of those. The treasure in the field is likened to the Kingdom of God. The wayfaring man was not sacrificial when he sold all he had to buy the field; the value of the treasure in the field was worth more than anything.
No one takes their money with them when they die. The Bible says not to lay up our treasures on earth but to lay up treasure in heaven. We cannot take it with us, but we prepare for eternity.
The scripture defines three kinds of giving: Tithes, Offering, and Alms. If we are going to participate in God’s plan, we must do some planning ourselves and treat tithing as a debt we owe. God has blessed us and caused the crop to grow, so we would bring the first part of the harvest to God as an acknowledgment that the blessing came from God.
