• Are We Our Own?

    From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to All on Sun Jun 26 01:37:02 2016
    Are We Our Own?

    How this day is a trust

    To Read: Job 13-15

    To Know:

    "For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property;." (Matt.25:14)

    Our lives are on loan. We must one day return what we have borrowed. Some
    time back certain stores began using their merchandise to loan money. Buy
    now and pay later was greatly encouraged. This turned the stuff in the store into a reason to take out loans at a fantastically high interest rate. Sometimes the attraction was to buy now and pay nothing until the next year.
    No matter how long the reprieve might be, the day came when the loan was due and payments must be made.

    Our days are loaned to us. We live borrowed lives. Once we awaken to the
    fact that our lives must be handed back to the one who owns them, we will
    live with an entirely different set of motives.


    To Do:

    Psalm 118:24 reads, "This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." The onset of each new day is like the bursting forth of creation. The Lord makes each day and gives it to us gladly. We are to be
    glad for it. It is much easier to live our days the way they were meant for
    us when we remember that they belong to the Lord and are loaned to us to
    enjoy. Even our sorrows are intended to show us the greatness and glory of
    the one who has given us all our days.

    Job was a man who experienced great sufferings. Jesus was a man of sorrows
    and acquainted with grief. The apostles understood that it was granted them
    to suffer for the sake of Christ's name. These days are a trust, given for
    us to endure, that we might be fit to receive the day that is to come.

    To Ask:

    Father, I relinquish to you the life you have loaned to me.

    /\llen

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