My Daily Devotional

Giving Back to God What is His

“But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.”
Deuteronomy 8:18

I love the story I heard of a church that had a parking problem. It was next door to a store that was closed on Sunday. They asked the owner if they could use his parking lot. He said that they could use it for 51 Sundays out of the year, but that it would be closed off one week. They were happy with the deal, but curious why it would be chained off that one Sunday. He explained that he just wanted them to remember that it wasn’t their parking lot. You know, there’s a lot of wisdom in this, as if you use something long enough, you tend to assume that it’s yours, but everything we have belongs to God. God wants us to remember that as indicated in the scripture above. Everything we have, our homes, our automobiles, our furniture, our bank accounts are not ours but God’s, as only He has allowed us to accumulate them. We need to remember that everything we own can be taken away just as easily, as we see families lose all their wealth and their material possessions every day in hurricanes, tornadoes, fires and other natural disasters. What we have belongs to God; it’s His stuff to begin with, as He blesses us by letting us use it, but it’s still His. When we understand this principal, it makes giving back to God become a lot easier. As long as a man thinks he owns what he has, then giving back to God will be difficult. But once a man realizes he owns nothing, but owes everything, and that even his life is given to him in trust, then the proper portion of his blessings will be given back to God. I would encourage each of you to begin to give back to God what is already His, and you will be blessed.

(Many of my readers have asked if my Daily Devotionals have been published and if they could purchase them. The Devotionals I am posting are from My Daily Devotional Volume III which was published in 2009 and can be purchased at amazon.com or from me at robbrock@comcast.net)