Luke 16:10 says that whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, but whoever is dishonest with very little, will also be dishonest with much. I remember hearing a few years ago when a record lottery prize of three hundred and fifty million dollars had just been won. It was known that two winning tickets had been sold; one from Illinois and one from Michigan. I’ve often wondered what it would be like to have that much money.

Well the facts are that the majority of lottery winners end up bankrupt or in financial trouble a few years after striking it rich. How can this happen? Probably because they didn’t have discipline and financial integrity before they had the money. As the facts show, this verse proves true. Whoever can be trusted with little can also be trusted with much, but whoever can’t be trusted with little, can’t be trusted with much.

So how about you? If you want to have much, you need to take a hard look at how you treat the little. Let’s say you want a newer or a nicer car. How do you treat the one that you have right now. Or maybe you’d like a different or a bigger house. How do you take care of your current one? At work, would you like to earn more money or get promoted? How are you doing in your current position? Do you demonstrate a fantastic work ethic and produce exceptional results. Or do you do just enough to get by because you really aren’t there for the longterm anyway?

Remember that in your personal as well as your work life, how you treat the little things will determine what bigger things you someday will have. Be faithful over the little things so that you’ll be prepared for the bigger ones. When you do this, you’ll be applying the truth at work.