Tuesday, November 03, 2009

What is God's?

We are going to be examining how we can be good stewards of everything that God has blessed us with over the next few weeks. This past Sunday we looked at what belongs to God from each one of us. Matthew 22:37 speaks to our love belonging to God. Malachi 1:6-8 shows us that we need to give God our honor. Malachi 3:8-10 shows us that we need to give our best of our tithes and offerings to God. John 14:1 says that we need to trust God. 1 Peter 4:1-3 is about how our time and our lives belong to God. Psalms 24:1 tells us the everything that has been created belongs to God.

I believe as we change our mindset and outlook from everything we have as belonging to us to everything belonging to God, it will free us to do what He wants us to do with His stuff. As stewards of God's creation we are to use everything for His glory. It all comes from Him and we will be held accountable for how we use and steward what has been put under our control.

It comes down to being honest about how we don't give back to God what is His. And once we repent we can then begin to give to God what is His and use the blessings He has given us to His glory. When we don't own up to this fact that we all miss the mark at times when it comes to being good stewards we are like the people God speaks to in Malachi 3:8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me." We rob God by stealing from Him what is rightfully His. What in your life needs to change? I implore you to change it now.

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