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Devotional Guide
For the week of June 22, 2003

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.


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nathanfilyk

God,

Help us to live our lives with this idea in perspective. We are not
our own, we were bought with a price. Help us to live knowing this,
making our daily choices in activity, entertainment and work
considering it.

~Nathan

rhuff163

Devotional Guide
For the week of June 22, 2003

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.


06233$-06233

nathanfilyk

God,

Help us to live our lives with this idea in perspective. We are not
our own, we were bought with a price. Help us to live knowing this,
making our daily choices in activity, entertainment and work
considering it.

~Nathan