Creating Good with What You’ve Been Given

To enter into the joy of the Lord is to create good and rule for good. That's what God does. His joy is to create, and to create good. Isn't that what we all like to do? God has infinite creative will. His design for us is to learn how to use what we are in charge of to create good. As we learn to be responsible for "little" before God, I, we are put in charge of more. Advancing in the kingdom of God is never a matter of egoism; it's a matter of growth and gaining responsibility because we have been responsible with our very little.

If we're to grow spiritually, we have to understand that we already are in charge of some things. So find what you have say over and use it to become the kind of person who can manage ten cities. The physical universe isn't going to disappear; it's here to stay. And there will always be a need for people to supervise it. We were made to be in charge.

—Dallas Willard