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A Steward Leader Trusts God For The Outcome

Sundar Singh came to know the Lord at the young age of 14. He was thrown out of his house by his father, who even tried to poison him for his faith. When he was just 18 years old, he set out on his first missionary journey to Tibet.

But 11 years later, when he returned home on a visit, his father told him that he too had come to know Jesus a year earlier.

Sundar Singh made no less than twenty trips to Tibet. These were fraught with danger and replete with divine interventions.

In one Tibetan town by the name of Razar, his hearers were filled with an overwhelming rage so that Sundar Singh was summarily condemned to die. The barbaric measure of torture and death involved that the condemned person was thrown into a deep well, where the rotting and decomposed bodies of those who had been condemned earlier lay strewn all around him at the bottom of the well. 

Sundar Singh was thrown into this well. He suffered injury in the fall itself. The iron lid of the well was securely locked after he had been thrown in, plunging the whole well into complete darkness. 

After two days had passed, Sundar Singh found difficulty in breathing and he knew that he was nearing the end. As he prayed, he heard a grating sound on the iron door of the well. It was the third night and someone was opening the door of the well. He saw a rope with a loop at its end, which was being lowered into the well, and he was asked to hold it tight. With his one good arm, as well as he could, he clung to the rope, having thrust a leg into the loop. Gently he was raised to the top of the well. His visitors shut the door and locked it and before he could thank them they were gone! 

Once again, without a doubt, these were angelic visitors. The key to the door itself hung from the girdle around the waist of the chief lama and was not available to any other person. In this marvelous way, God released His servant so that he could continue his unrelenting labor.

In Daniel Chapter 3, we read about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who were willing to take a stand for Christ, irrespective of the consequences. The Lord did step in among them. But they were willing to trust God even if He didn’t.  

Warren Wiersbe writing about this incident said “The three men could have compromised with the king and defended their disobedience by arguing, “Everybody else is doing it,” or “Our office demands that we obey,” or “We’ll bow our knees but we won’t bow our hearts.” They might have said, “We can do our people more good by being officers in the king’s service than by being ashes in the king’s furnace.” But true faith doesn’t look for loopholes; it simply obeys God and knows that He will do what is best. Faith rests on commands and promises, not on arguments and explanations.”

A steward leader is willing to take a stand for Christ irrespective of the outcome. Obedience is the driving force in a steward’s life. Are you an obedient steward? Are you willing to pay the price? Willing to trust the Lord at any cost?

Quote: “Trusting God does not mean believing He will do what you want, but rather believing he will do everything He knows is good.” - Ken Sande

Prayer: Lord, help me trust and obey You irrespective of the outcome. Amen