Day 8 PDL Notes-

Psalms 24:1  A Psalm of David.>> The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

The Bible tells us that all upon the earth and it's fulness are the Lord's. We personally never really own anything. We are simply stewarts of God's earth. It is a loan unto us.

It was God's before you were born and He will loan it to someone else after you pass on.

God first loaned it to Adam to manage and take care of.

Genesis 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

When we don't own something we rarely wish to care for it. The reason we are to care for what God entrusts us with is because it is God's.

Everything you do has been entrusted you by God and at the end of life your stewardship will be examined.

Matthew 25:21  His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Luke 16:11  If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12  And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

Life is a test and a trust. The more we receive the more responsible God intends us to be.
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personal notes- in futher scripture it says God gave not loaned
29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
He gave the land to Israel-
Genesis 28:13  And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
He also gives us His only begotten Son.
John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.