We are God's Steward of Our Lives

We are God's Steward of Our Lives


I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him." Deuteronomy 30:19

(Editor's Note: Here is a story by Bo Sanchez from kerygma magazine. You may subscribe to www.kerygmafamily.com for free.)


Let me tell you a story. Three construction workers were on top of their half-finished skyscraper. Rrrrring!! The lunch bell sounded, and the three men sat on a steel beam jutting out of the 56th floor with their lunch boxes in hand.

The first guy opens his and groans in exasperation, "Tuyo! There is not a day that I don’t get tuyo for lunch!" He turns to his buddies and announces, "Mark my words, if I still get tuyo tomorrow, I’m going to throw myself from this building!" (Ed's Note: Tuyo is a dried fish).

The second guy opens his lunch box and moans, "Tinapa... Everyday, I get tinapa!" He looks at his friends and declares, "Believe me when I say this: If I get tinapa tomorrow, I’m going to jump and kill l myself!" (Ed's Note: Tinapa is a smoked fish).

The third guy opens his lunch box and it was his turn to despair. "Galunggong! All I get is galunggong! I’m telling you, if I still get galunggong tomorrow, I’m going to jump from this building and die!" (Ed's Note: Galunggong is a kind of fish usually cooked fried).

The next day, the lunch bell rings and all three men are again seated on the 56th floor. The first guy opens his lunch box and starts crying, "Tuyoooooo!" And so he jumps and crashes on the ground.

The second guy opens his lunch box and wails loudly, "Tinapaaaa!" And he also hurls himself off the building and dies.

The third guy opens his lunch box and screams, "Galunggonggggg!" And so, he too jumps off the building and splatters on the ground.

Days later, during the funeral of the three men, their three wives embrace and weep together. The first wife cries out, "I didn’t know my husband didn’t like tuyo anymore! Why didn’t he tell me? If only he told me,
I would have prepared something else."

The second wife echoes her statement, "Yes... If only I knew, I would have cooked something else, not tinapa!"

The third wife, between sobs, speaks up, "I don’t know why my husband killed himself..." The two wives look at her curiously. "Why?"
She went on, "Because my husband prepares his own lunch everyday..."

I love this crazy story because it presents a very important truth: all of us prepare our own lunch. God in his infinite wisdom has made us responsible stewards of our life. We are responsible for our own lives. If we don’t like our jobs, we can change jobs. If we don’t like the state of our relationships, we can do something about our relationship - we can change our friends. If we don’t like what’s happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Because God has given us free will. He has given us the power to prepare our own lunch.

If you want to earn more and be free from debt, if you’re sick and tired of your bad habits, if we want to put more joy in our marriages, if we want to grow in our relationship with God - then go back to your kitchen and prepare yourself another dish. Because you design your own future. You create your own destiny. Ask yourself what kind of future do you want to have? What kind of life? What kind of eternity? You decide.