January 13, 2022

“For all things come from Thee, and from Thine own have we given Thee.” (1 Chronicles 29:14)

You don’t earn your money. You don’t own your money, or your house, or your car. Everything you have is a gift. What you have is not yours. It is God’s. Everything is God’s. 

Money is by its very nature transactional. God – and the Kingdom of God – is entirely non-transactional. It is all gift, unable to be transacted, earned, bought or forced. All things come of Thee, O Lord, and from Thine own have we given Thee.

“Almighty God, whose loving hand hath given us all we possess: Grant us grace that we may honor thee with our substance and may be faithful stewards of thy bounty, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (For the Right Use of God’s Gifts – BCP p. 827)