Day 44 with David: Everything belongs to the Lord and His rule should be respected and welcomed.

“The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭24:1, 9-10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

It’s interesting to me to observe how people deal with other people’s property. For example, I have seen people occupying someone else’s property—whether that be hotel, motel, rental house, rental car, and so on—treating the property with great carelessness and leaving destruction behind them.

Beyond that, we have recently seen graphic reminders that there are some people who have no respect for other people’s property. It seems they think they have a right to steal, burn, tear down, and treat with utter contempt what does not belong to them. Additionally, they revile and abuse those who attempt to thwart their destruction.

Jesus told a parable about some evil vineyard keepers who felt entitled to keep all the fruit of another man’s vineyard and doing with his property as they pleased. They went so far as to abuse and kill representatives sent by the owner of the vineyard. They ultimately killed even the son of the vineyard owner sent to represent his father.

“Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, ‘Surely they will respect my son.’ But when the tenant farmers saw his son coming, they said to one another, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’ So they grabbed him, dragged him out of the vineyard, and murdered him.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭21:37-39‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Jesus was speaking of the leaders of Israel. They took what the Lord had given them—authority and prosperity—and decided that they wanted to keep it all to themselves. And as we know, they killed Jesus, the One sent from the Father.

Everything, everywhere, belongs to the Lord.

“This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me such a resting place? My hands have made both heaven and earth; they and everything in them are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭66:1-2a‬ ‭NLT‬‬

After having created all things, the Lord entrusted man with taking care of the creation and ruling over it FOR HIM.

“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

We know how that turned out: man rebelled against his maker and chose to deal with the creation as he desired.

Then the Lord’s chosen people did the same thing! They did with what God had entrusted to them as they pleased.

Sadly, even now I see those who call themselves Christians, denying that the Kingdom of God has a coming King Who will rule and reign over the earth. Rather, they have chosen to be rulers themselves and unto themselves, using the name of the King, but not desiring His rule.

In our portion from Psalms today we see David—as he did many other times—recognizing the fact that God owns everything; there is not anything that He does not own. He is the creator. As an extension, David acknowledged that the rule, the ultimate authority of God, should be met with open arms and open hearts.

For today let us know and understand what David knew:

Everything belongs to the Lord and His rule should be respected and welcomed.

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