Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Stewardship not Ownership

I recently had lunch with a man in his seventy's whom I respect. He told me, “I don’t know why it has taken me so long to learn the lesson that all I have is God’s. When the Lord took away things I thought were mine I finally learned they don't really belong to me.”  Wow! I then recalled how difficult that lesson has been for me as well. It seems like we all are challenged with understanding that all we have is only on loan from God.

Here’s our tendency....