Stewardship Of LifeSample

I own nothing. God owns everything.

We are living in a “selfie” world, where the attention is drawn to ourselves. We strive to possess what we can call our own. My friends, my mobile, my possessions, my money, my….

We think that it is because of our hard labor at work that we were able to buy a house that we can call our own. We think that we have a good job because of our educational qualifications or our influences. We think that we can plan and determine our own destinies. As a result our lives are characterized more by self-sufficiency than dependence on God.

But the Bible says that we own nothing. Ecclesiastes 5 verse 15 (NLT) says “We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can't take our riches with us.”

Michael Huffington  so clearly puts it “When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.”

If nothing belongs to us, we are only to be stewards of what has been entrusted to us. 

How will this principle of we own nothing affect our lives here on earth? 

It is a very liberating thought because it sets us free from being tied up to our possessions or being caught in the rat race for more and more possessions. We think that the more possessions we can call our own, we have really made it in life. But the desire to accumulate never ends, and this kind of striving always brings with it concern about how to keep what we have or how to protect it from others who may want it.

It also releases us from the rat race of striving for more since we know that our heavenly Father will meet all our needs.

Once we recognize that He owns everything that we have, it also brings with it a responsibility to be wise stewards of what God has given to us.

Quote: “Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service, you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already.” – C.S. Lewis

Prayer: Lord, what a liberating thought to know that since You own everything and I am Your child, You will meet my every need. Thank you for showing me that all that I have is from You. Help me to use it all very wisely for Your kingdom. Amen