READING: Proverbs 14-15, Romans 14
I’m thinking today about things I own – things that “belong” to me. Many of these things are things I bought because I wanted them. Books. A treadmill. A computer. My phone. Souvenirs from around the world. Hiking poles. A prayer shawl. I could go on and on with this list.
In other cases, these things are gifts others have given me. Pictures. Plaques. Old books. Clothing. Again, I could keep listing items – but the point is that I am now the “owner” of these things.
What I am not, though, is the owner of my own life. Instead, as Paul told his readers in Romans, “For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord” (Rom 14:7-8). As believers, all of our life belongs to the Lord. We live because He grants us life. He rules our daily lives, and He will welcome us in death at the appointed time. Christ alone is the Lord of both the living and the dead.
We belong to Him—and that truth ought to change the way we live.
PRAYER: “Lord, I know I belong to You. Help me to follow You faithfully.”
TOMORROW’S READING: Weekend is for catch-up and review
