We conclude our series this week with Lesson Five from TheDiscipline of Possessions. We pray it has been an encouragement to you as you bring this area of your life before the Lord, seeking His will.
Four lessons, then:
1. Things are given by God.
2. Things are to be received with thanksgiving.
3. Things are material for sacrifice.
4. Things are given us to enjoy for a while.
And there is a fifth: All that belongs to Christ is ours. Therefore, as Amy Carmichael wrote, ”All that was ever ours is ours forever.”
We often say that what is ours belongs to Christ. Do we remember the opposite: that what is His is ours? That seems to me a wonderful truth, almost an incredible truth. If it is so, how can we really “lose” anything? How can we even speak of His having the “right” to our possessions?
“Everything belongs to you! Paul, Apollos or Cephas; the world, life, death, the present or the future, everything is yours! For you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God!”
“Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine,” the Father says to us. That is riches.
**Excerpt originally published in Discipline, the Glad Surrender, pp 116