Clearly, proper stewardship is using what we’ve been given in order to gain increase. Similarly, the word traded here is a word that simply means, “to work with.” The faithful servants put the money to work, just as we must put the favor we’ve received from God to work in our lives in order to bring increase. Now clearly someone who understands how money works will be able to work with money more successfully than someone who doesn’t; in the same way we must seek to understand the nature and purpose