While recently meeting with a wealthy family, I was impressed that the husband and wife were in town to take their two adult children to a training on how to be good stewards with the family’s wealth.
The father told me that evening that the personal inheritance of his two children was going to be determined by how good they were as stewards over time. If they started making poor decisions, more would be shifted to their family’s charitable foundation.
With the heart of a father, he said, “The last thing I want to do is to ruin my kids with all this money.”
Proverbs 15:16 teaches, “Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.”
Leaving significant wealth without proper training is poor stewardship.
