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Trustworthy: relied on; depended on; applied to people; delivered in confidence to the care of another.
Greek: object trustworthy; subject trustful: - believe (-ing, -r), faithful (-ly), sure, true. Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Passive, "faithful, to be trusted, reliable," said of God, e.g., 1 Cor. 1:9; Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament and New Testament Words.
The reason we raise our children and instruct them to take care of the things that belong to us is because we want to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This creates a spirit of trustworthiness that will be so vital in the success and prosperity of our young ones. I see so many parents allowing their children to be disrespectful to other people and to other people’s property.
When my children were growing up, they would have friends over to play pool or ping pong or to watch television or to play in the yard. Some of the kids were very disrespectful and would break our pool table cues, kick holes in our drywall and destroy electronic equipment. But there were others that would not be disrespectful, and I found out who they were years later.
This is a matter of bringing up and instructing the children to have respect for other people’s property and things. This is the message of Luke 16 and how often this is a reason some folks just never get ahead in life. They have never been taught to honor authority, especially mom and dad and have little or no regard for the law and men in authority who have the day-to-day responsibilities of looking out for us on the highways and byways and unfolds even in the marketplace and at our jobs.
Let me illustrate. Let’s say you are at your job, and you work in front of a computer. At a moment in time, you remember that you have not done anything for your daughter’s birthday. No big deal, you get on the internet and shop for a gift for her. It only takes 15 minutes, but the project is finished and you now have something for her birthday. Little did you know that God is watching and you failed to realize this simple act is stealing from your employer and is no different than a bank robber stealing millions of dollars. We minimize our actions and justify our way to the point that we feel ‘no harm no foul’. Here is where the problem lies. God sees the actions and calls it untrustworthy, and he is the one that spoke Luke 6:12 that ‘He watches over his Word to perform it’ in every area. These folks are the ones that always wonder and complain that they can never get ahead in life and everyone else always receives the benefits. They are sloppy with their time and with others.
Trustworthy is all inclusive and covers all areas of our life and it is of the utmost importance to see to it that we are respectful of others and their property [money]. If you are unfaithful with little, you will be unfaithful with much. If we are to be blessed and have things of our own, we must learn to be trustworthy with other people’s possessions.
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