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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