There is something about identity and job description. They tell who you are and helps you to know your rights, privileges and responsibilities, the expectations from you and the purposes of your existence. It helps you to be professional in your preparation and delivery reflecting your potentials.
As a minister of God, you are a steward of God's mysteries. You wait both on God and on those who you were sent to serve bringing the knowledge, the understanding and the wisdom of God and His Word.
It is a spiritual business beyond mental exertion or calculations. This is primary to any other thing expected of us, to speak a word in season to him who is weary.
Isaiah 50
4. The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Malachi 2
7. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
The steward is the connection between the kitchen and the table. He waits on both the kitchen and the table. He is to receive from the kitchen and to deliver at the table. His job is that simple.
He must take from the kitchen and nowhere else. He isn't the cook, he doesn't cook. And he must not contaminate the dish by adding what he thinks, and must not take anything away from the dish. It is required in stewardship that a man be found faithful.
When you are called into speaking the word, you are expected to speak as the oracles of God. You don't merely learn public speaking, you connect to the microphone of the Holy Spirit to amplify and to act the loudspeaker of the feed from the heart of God.
1 Peter 4
11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
It is a work of dependence that must exclude our emotions and our feelings. Sometimes you don't feel like it, sometimes you feel like saying certain things other than what God is saying but since it doesn't work by our feelings, we are still expected to deliver the exact mind of God once the feed comes.
Jeremiah 20
9. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
The peculiarity of this kind of stewardship is that the table doesn't dictate what the kitchen sends. The steward doesn't deliver according to what the table wants but according to whatever is sent from the kitchen.
It is possible that the world, as foretold, would not be able to endure sound doctrines at a point, and would want to recruit such stewards that would listen to what they want to hear. A faithful steward won't fall for that trick. He will remain true and faithful.
2 Timothy 4
3. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Tips from the table would never be taken as a replacement from the reward from the kitchen. The user isn't the payer, the delivery may not be user friendly all the time. A faithful steward must be content with what comes to him from the kitchen as his reward and not be bought over by tips from the table, otherwise he'll become a servant to hitching ears.
Human philosophies, antichrist socializations and culture and so on must never replace the mysteries of God served by stewards of God's mysteries even if popular. These have the capacity to sway a person called to serve as a steward of God's mysteries particularly if he's ignorant of what he's called to serve.
That means, a steward of God's mysteries should listen more to God and expect his judgment from God and not from the world. We aren't sent to harp what the world is saying but to declare what God is saying, God's word isn't open to the world's opinions.
Every preacher, speaking to those redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ must be sure he or she delivers as given from heaven...because a great price has been paid for their souls: That's faithfulness as a steward of God's mysteries!
1 Corinthians 4
1. Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
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