It's All His Anyway

Scripture:
Psalm 50:9–12 — “I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.”
 
Observation:
I so easily forget that God owns everything. It doesn’t take me long before I begin to think that I actually have some possessions, something to call mine. But God reminds me that He is the Creator and Owner of all. The world and everything in it belongs to Him.
 
Application:
All to often I allow my selfish, human nature to take over and I begin to claim possessions or make entitlements. Do I believe that all God has blessed me with is solely mine? Or is it meant to be used in a way that is a blessing to others? Or are there even times when it is meant to be given away? Realizing that it is all God’s anyway and He can us me as a conduit to bless others.
 
Prayer:
Father God, Help me to appreciate the many ways you blessed me. Also help me to realize that all this stuff (money, house, land, cars, clothes, etc.) all I have, is from you and therefore yours to do as you please. If I am daily laying down my life and taking on your will; help me to also lay down anything and everything else that I think I may be entitled to or possess and take on the freedom that you want me to live in.

— Jared Yates, small groups pastor, college & single adults, Reservoir campus