It's not ours to have, but only a loan

It's not ours to have, but only a loan

O LORD God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O LORD, and your faithfulness surrounds you. You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them. You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies. The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it. Psalms 89:8-11

We think we own everything that we come in possession of, but we don't. God owns everything here on this earth, anything we have it is only a loan and a temporary gift from God while we are living here on earth.

You and I are surrounded everyday by things we think we own: our car, our home, our children, our clothing, our money, our hidden away collections of coins, guns, dolls,
family heirlooms even our bodies.

For instance when the time comes for our Lord to call us home to Him, we will have to leave everything here to be passed down to others to use or have until our Lord call us home to Him.

We must treat the things right that God loaned us to use. For instance if we borrowed somebody's car or items that we use , we must take care of it the right way, because it is not ours.

Our bodies must be taken care of for the spirit to live in it the right way, it is like staying in a cluttered house or clean house, I know you don't want to stay in a nasty house, that goes the same way for our spirit , it can not stay in a dirty body. So watch how you feed the body that God loaned us, feed the body with the right food and also the Word of God.

The antithesis of what I am talking about is the kind of pride we see in King Nebuchadnezzar.
He was the king of a great empire and fell easily into the temptation of believing he was the owner and master of many lands and property, and peoples. Daniel, the Lord's prophet, had
warned the king that the Lord God Almighty would humble him for his sinful self preoccupation. So we read in Daniel 4:29-33.

So much for King Nebuchadnezzar and how important he thought he was with all "his" possessions of land and property and kingdoms. He is only an extreme example of each of us who have failed to settle in our hearts who is truly the owner of my
paycheck and the very air I breathe. It's all on loan to me from Him, the creator,
for another moment, another day, by His grace even for a lifetime:
When You hide your face (Lord) they are dismayed; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust. When You send forth your Spirit they are created; and
You (Lord) renew the face of the earth. (Ps. 104:30)

Do we, like Nebuchadnezzar, have to keep losing what we treasure and think we own, before we realize the truth that everyday and everything of that day is God's gift to us? Most likely the answer is "yes"; pride will continue to hamper my thankfulness until as we have heard so many times before "we are born again." Until God greatest gift of all to us, His Son, Jesus Christ, becomes my Lord and Savior, and His Holy Spirit takes charge of my heart and mind, until that conversion takes place daily; the precious grandmother's inheritance gave me will always be mine instead of His and the money I have will remain under my control instead of His. Who are we to think we can change ourselves? Who am I to think I could ever be grateful for anything I have made and accomplished?

So everything here on earth stays here on earth, after we and others leave it to go home to see the Lord.

Amen.