In seminary, I rented a room from a remarkable widow. Bess Gresham was 87 and still president of the Poetry Society of Virginia. She was preparing to turn over her responsibilities to others. She told me, "If the organization you serve doesn't continue to grow after you leave, you didn't do your job." She saw her service as a kind of stewardship. She would serve in such a way as to prepare others to continue her success. That is the proper stewardship of power.
Let us serve and invest our power so that the cause of our Lord is furthered. If the next generation serves Him better, may it be because we helped to prepare them. And when we lay our power down, may we continue to be awed by the grace of a God who would use us to display His glory.
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