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Sonship is an invitation into true wealth.
Though a typical dictionary might define wealth as 'an abundance of valuable possessions', the word comes to us from the Middle English wele, meaning 'well-being'. Later it was combined with the Proto-Germanic -th, akin to our word health.
It is the state of being 'well': well cared for, well protected, well provisioned.
Of course, this well-being, this wealth, is precarious in our mortal age, and constantly buffeted by circumstances, by accusations, by adversaries—physical, spiritual, and imagined.
In a world where faithful friendship is elusive and isolation and anxiety are ubiquitous, we default to an individualized, exclusively monetized working definition of wealth that keeps us striving, grasping, yearning for 'more', because no amount of fiat funds will ever be 'enough' to fend off the fears, to produce the affirmation, to eliminate the loneliness.
These 'in-securities' are common in the life of a servant, a laborer, a hired hand; droughts, diseases, downturns, deficiencies, dictatorial decisions can all strike at any moment, no matter what has been accomplished or accumulated.
But a son…a son is an heir. A son is in relationship—not a contractual one, a continual one. A son is not grasping for gain, but receiving residual benefits. A son is not sitting envying neighbors and peers, but expectantly waiting to inherit while passing through on the journey.
And as sons, we’re called—privileged—to steward that wealth that’s been placed in trust for us by attending to the relationships (and the lives and gifts and divine image existing within those relationships) that make up the assets in that trust account.
Every phone call to check in, every act of assistance or encouragement, every confidence kept, obstacle overcome, or relationship reconciled on behalf of another in need—that is the stewardship of sonship.
It's the stewardship that our forebear Cain forfeited, but that the Son redeemed and returned to his followers—whom he calls brothers and friends.
Now, we too can live as a son of God, from moment to moment, an inheritor of wealth. Moreover, we can seek out and gather with other sons of God…and access the value of that inherited wealth. Today.
With no hidden fees deducted from the balance.
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