Everything is GOD’S.
Everything is GOD’S.
Just think about that for a second! EVERYTHING. Look around your house. Outside. Inside. Your body. Every possession. Every detail. Every minute. Every talent. Even our money. EVERYTHING. It’s GOD’S.
Psalm 24:1 says, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.”
God has given us so much, hasn’t He? And guess what? It is our job to now care for everything He has given us. One thing I love to tell our daughter is that if your room is too messy, then that means we aren’t being good stewards over what God has given us and maybe we have too much, if we can’t take care of it all. Oh how she just LOVES that :). But that is something I think of often – do I have too much or manage too much that I can’t care for anything well?
But God doesn’t just call us to be stewards over our possessions.
One of the BIGGEST gifts He has given us to be stewards over are our STORIES. God has meticulously thought out our very purpose here on earth, at this specific time in history, for His specific people, in this generation. Do we see every chapter of our stories as a gift and something to steward well? I know I haven’t! And yet this is something I am learning. The hard stuff and the good stuff, are all gifts, so how do we handle them? The same as we do the other things He has given us? Allow your story to be something to embrace and steward because when we do so, we honor God with our lives.
EVERYTHING IS GOD’S. Take a moment to do an inventory of your life. Where does God stand? As the #1? Or does he play second-fiddle to something?
Giving it all back to Him in service, prayer, and generosity is what He deserves. It’s easy to live for ourselves. Living like everything is His is hard, as it goes against our nature, but it’s what He desires. Let’s go and do it!
