Each of you have been given a life. Through the conscious self, you are able to be a steward of your life. What does it mean to be a good steward?

Through the life you’ve been given, you have access to the self who believes God exists and access to the self who doesn’t believe. As the conscious self, you don’t know which is true and therefore you don’t know which to invest in. How can you know? You have been thrown into this situation with no context.

Does the good steward, who truly cares for his life, not invest in both?

The good steward knows not to trust too much in one self over the other since he knows each is going to try to capture his support in order to receive more investment. First and foremost, the good steward must maintain an appropriate paranoia of being captured by one or the other.

The good steward resides over a life of division and contradiction. Do you know him?

The good steward is not lukewarm, investing little in each. Rather, he invests much in both.

The good steward is a central figure in furthering the story of the kingdom.

Do you see his presence in the parable of the prodigal son? Do you see his two interventions in the story, which he is able to make due to his identification and care for each brother? Do you see how the level up would not happen in the parable without the good steward?